esoral Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 Hello I have a few drives I would like to move to my PC and begin using StableBit DrivePool and StableBit Scanner with. I have 5x - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E3RH61W/ And 3x - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00TKFEEBW/ This is my motherboard: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0126R4F8W/ So my question is, obviously I don't have 8 available USB ports so do you have any recommendations on USB Hubs or internal PCI-E expansion cards to use, and how many to obtain maximum speed for each drive and compatibility with both StableBit products. Thanks so much for the help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider99 Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 I would do something a little different and take the drives out of the enclosures and put them into one or two new enclosure and or cases - i have looked at those external drives myself as a way to get some cheap storage to add to my pool but did not in the end as wanted different drives i use an orico 5 bay usb3 enclosure with out issue - but not with DP - its for backup etc - but scanner sees the drives and scans them with no problem - so dp will work ok also - some have problems with usb dropping out or other issues but i have never had that issue ever depends what you might want to spend to make this work - an old pc case with just a power supply - and using a sas/sata hba means they could be connected to your pc and they would appear as a if they were actually attached esata is another option again there are enclosures Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher (Drashna) Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 Internal would be better, so would eSATA/SAS. But since that really isn't an option here, it looks like: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B011LZY20G/ that looks like a good card, and it uses ReneSAS chipset, which is a good chipset. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Spencer Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 I don't use external USB for continuous power on as had 2x Hitachi 3TB drivers fail after a a year. I Lost 3TB of a lot of ripped disks. You never seem to have enough capacity for redundancy although very important stuff is on CrashPlan and duplicated. Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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