Multiple HDD enclosure - Single USB connection

[DennisCooper]

Hi,

On ebay there's various 2/3/4/5 bay hard drive enclosures that simply hold the physical disks and output on a single USB3 connector.

When plugged into my laptop, would each drive appear separately ?

The name I see on ebay listings and various UK home and small office IT resellers is Orico and this is their product page

http://www.orico.cc/us/product/detail/3256.html

Around £120/130 on ebay listings.

I have 6/7 SATA hard drives ranging from around 1TB to 3TB. I'd like to plug them in and designate say one for all my music files, another for all my family photo's/videos, another for all my small business images and so on. If I want to swap out a drive for a particular use, I can do so and within my laptop I'll see it as whichever drive letter I assign it, correct?

Right now, I don't wish to go with a NAS, although I will do in the future and most likely a Synology as I've used them previously.

Cheers, Dennis!

[Penelope Stopit]

Yes each HDD will show

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[Luca Brazzi]

Yes.
Also check out Yottamaster on Amazon. I love mine.

[DennisCooper]

Hi,

Apologies for the late reply!

Thanks for the confirmation and recommendation !

Will be placing an order soon. With a few other projects, it'll be most likely a Synology NAS i'll also add to my network in the near/mid term future

Cheers, Dennis!