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Hard Drive Enclosure Advice
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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
I don't know how easy they will be to come by for you, but Orico has a decent 4 bay enclosure in USB-C, I got one a few weeks ago and am using it with OpenMediaVault on a 1L PC. If I need more drive bays, I can grab another and chain them because they include a USB hub. Yottamaster has a similar model, but they offer a firmware update on their site to turn off the automatic sleep function. It's at least a couple of model numbers to look around for. They do pass unique drive information through to the host, which I understand can be an issue for some enclosures.
https://www.amazon.com/ORICO-Enclosure-Aluminum-Expansion-SSD-3549C3/dp/B0BY26NFMR
https://www.amazon.com/Yottamaster-Enclosure-External-Capacity-USB-FS4C3/dp/B08DLTTDTV/