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Anyone use multi-drive enclosures?

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  • Anyone use multi-drive enclosures?

    Hello - I have used single hard drive enclosures in the past, but recently I've seen a few multi-drive enclosures show up. An example is this one - Newegg.com - ICY DOCK MB561US-4S 4 Bay 3.5” SATA to eSATA Port Multiplier & USB 2.0 Removable Aluminum External Hard Drive Enclosure for Mac & PC - External Enclosures - pricey, but I couldn't find something similar at the moment that is cheaper. Anyway, my question is with these enclosures, if I throw in a few hard drives, do these all link up and show up in XP has one big hard drive, or will they show up as four different hard drives? If I have four hard drives with data on each of them, can I just plug them in and hope it works? Alternatively, it might be cheaper to set up a really cheap basic desktop system in a large case and just plug in hard drives. But I just was curious how the multi-drive enclosures work. Thanks, - Eli
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