I have a few smaller 256GB, and 512GB scrap hard drives.
And I wanted to turn them into home theater storage. I thought about a Plex server but decided against it since I only need it for 1 device and the regular PC motherboard (just an old crappy pc) usually didn't have enough sata ports.
So I'm looking for something (or to make something) that powers the multiple hard drives and sends the storage signal via a single USB A (don't care if it's janky as hell) tho I don't care for redundancy.
Did think about just buying a few HHD enclosures but tbh I don't like that since every one of them would need a different power cable and they cost a bit. A 256 GB USB would cost the same as getting an enclosure for an old 256GB hard drive.
And I do mean a cheap option since if it costs nearly 100 euros it's way more price-effective just to buy a 4 TB hard drive with an enclosure.