It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/QUAKE on 2025-07-03 06:06:56.

It seems USB enclosures are unreliable. I use a 3.5" hotswap bay similar to: https://www.amazon.com/ORICO-1106SS-Trayless-Internal-adapter/dp/B0093FINMU

But its impossible to find a modern case with 3.5" bay today and this thing sucks for 2.5" drives and im never sure a drive is actually connected because i can't see it.

How do I connect an hdd to my pc on the outside? is eSata still a thing?

What about somthing like this? https://www.cablesonline.com/1posal7da15p.html https://www.delock.com/produkt/90418/merkmale.html

Why are these only molex, not sata inside, nothing uses 3.3v?

And something like this for one cable?

https://www.amazon.com/DKARDU-22-pin-Extension-Optical-20-inch/dp/B0969BKPSD?xpid=nP2ulAaUNfQdu

or a different route?

long sata cable? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0001Y7UAI

What about power?

sas to sata + LSI 9200-8e 6Gbps 8-lane external SAS ? https://www.amazon.com/CableCreation-SFF-8088-Female-Controller-Backplane/dp/B013G4EX9K/

https://www.ebay.com/itm/163534822734?epid=28034148027hash%3Ditem26136f5d4e%3Ag%3A5sEAAOSwdwlcX2E3

Please advise