[OT] Does a multi-drive USB external hard disk rack exist?

[Steven Susbauer]

On 9/4/2010 6:02 PM, Tony Arnold wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 23:42 +0100, ms wrote:
>> Is something of this kind available on the market? If yes, could you
>> point me where/what?
>
> I found this after some quick Googling:
>
> http://www.usb-ware.com/5-bay-sata-raid-enclosure-t5r5esuf.htm
>
> Any good?

The key word is "enclosure". There are quite a few hard disk enclosures 
on newegg and elsewhere which will either do the raid internally or 
present both disks (as JBOD) which you can then use btrfs, lvm, zfs or 
other means to use as one large disk.

For example: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817193059

A Google search for "jbod enclosure" or "raid enclosure" will get you 
some results. Note that larger capacity (usually over two drives) 
enclosures often use esata more than usb.