I have a server that I built in a desktop format. It has plenty of space for my personal backups, which is in raid 0+1 to prevent loss, but I'm finding myself wanting to expand and really put a foot forward in having a serious amount of drive space available for random bits and bobs collected over the years.
The case doesn't really support room for any additional drives, so I started thinking about an external solution to hold more storage for the existing system. There has to be a way to have drives in their own enclosure, but still connected to the system. I have room for a PCI-E card if there's some sort of way to maintain SATA speeds and yet have the drives in their own enclosure.
TL:DR; I want an external enclosure for storage drives, (that is nothing but a frame for the drives; not a requirement if there's a better solution), that I can connect to my desktop-style server. The bottleneck should be the drive speeds, not the bus between the server and the enclosure. Willing to add PCI-E card if necessary.
Will happily takes suggestions for enclosures and even for the drives themselves if anyone knows of affordable, quality drive options, as well.