It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/WriteCodeBroh on 2024-06-16 23:30:14.

Let’s say a friend of mine was thinking about, hypothetically of course, buying a used workstation off of Facebook marketplace. And a lot of those modern used workstations don’t have a whole lot of space for hard drives.

What if this friend drilled a hole in the side of the case, ran the required power and data cables (SATA probably) out to a custom built case with a backplane and a whole bunch of hard drives?

I assume there are EMI and short related risks but frankly I’ve seen people run whole computers on open wooden racks with fans blowing on the components, function just fine for years, also don’t plan to touch/move things much and they’ll be off the floor and out of the way.

So anyway, all that being said, how stupid of an idea is this?