Any IDE external HDD enclosures for multiple drives?

[Ropuchy]

Hello.

I'm looking for an external HDD enclosure for multiple IDE drives. Does anything like this exist?

 

[thx1138v2]

Yes, they exist but you need a better definition of what you are looking for. How many drives? Two is pretty simple. Just search for "external IDE drive rack". If you want more than two, how many?

How do you want to access them? Just from one machine with or multiple machines? If it's just one machine you could do it with USB and a USB hub. If more than one machine needs to access them you'll need ethernet or Wifi which means a more complex machine - basically just a simple PC with minimal specs. You might be able to find an old NAS machine that would handle IDE drives or use IDE to SATA converters.

Does it need to be portable?

 

[Ropuchy]

Yes, they exist but you need a better definition of what you are looking for. How many drives? Two is pretty simple. Just search for "external IDE drive rack". If you want more than two, how many?

How do you want to access them? Just from one machine with or multiple machines? If it's just one machine you could do it with USB and a USB hub. If more than one machine needs to access them you'll need ethernet or Wifi which means a more complex machine - basically just a simple PC with minimal specs. You might be able to find an old NAS machine that would handle IDE drives or use IDE to SATA converters.

Does it need to be portable?

Sorry for not being very specific.
I am unsure of how many at the moment, but let's just say 6-10 for now.

Just one machine would need to access them.
It does not need to be portable.

 

[samer.forums]

Yes, they exist but you need a better definition of what you are looking for. How many drives? Two is pretty simple. Just search for "external IDE drive rack". If you want more than two, how many?

How do you want to access them? Just from one machine with or multiple machines? If it's just one machine you could do it with USB and a USB hub. If more than one machine needs to access them you'll need ethernet or Wifi which means a more complex machine - basically just a simple PC with minimal specs. You might be able to find an old NAS machine that would handle IDE drives or use IDE to SATA converters.

Does it need to be portable?

Sorry for not being very specific.
I am unsure of how many at the moment, but let's just say 6-10 for now.

Just one machine would need to access them.
It does not need to be portable.

why do you need IDE Enclosure for 10 harddisks anyways ?

There is no such 10 IDE drives bay available . when people used 10 drives in old times they used SCSI drives not IDE drives.

also , are you sure the IDE drives are still functioning?

 

[Ropuchy]

Yes, they exist but you need a better definition of what you are looking for. How many drives? Two is pretty simple. Just search for "external IDE drive rack". If you want more than two, how many?

How do you want to access them? Just from one machine with or multiple machines? If it's just one machine you could do it with USB and a USB hub. If more than one machine needs to access them you'll need ethernet or Wifi which means a more complex machine - basically just a simple PC with minimal specs. You might be able to find an old NAS machine that would handle IDE drives or use IDE to SATA converters.

Does it need to be portable?

Sorry for not being very specific.
I am unsure of how many at the moment, but let's just say 6-10 for now.

Just one machine would need to access them.
It does not need to be portable.

why do you need IDE Enclosure for 10 harddisks anyways ?

There is no such 10 IDE drives bay available . when people used 10 drives in old times they used SCSI drives not IDE drives.

also , are you sure the IDE drives are still functioning?

I have a whole lot of IDE drives and I thought I could use them for storage. It's very silly, I know.

Ah ok, that's alright. Just thought I'd ask to see if any existed before I tried to go looking for them.

Nope. But I've got a lot and I thought an enclosure would help to process through them to find the working ones.

 

[USAFRet]

Sorry for not being very specific.
I am unsure of how many at the moment, but let's just say 6-10 for now.

Just one machine would need to access them.
It does not need to be portable.

I've not seen any "6-10" IDE USB drive bays.
Here is a 2 slot one
https://www.amazon.com/Awolf-Multi-function-Docking-Station-Enclosure/dp/B01790511Q

But...how large are these drive? IDE, they can't be very large. And they are old. Possibility of dying soon.

Copy that data off to one or two new SATA drives.

 

[Ropuchy]

Sorry for not being very specific.
I am unsure of how many at the moment, but let's just say 6-10 for now.

Just one machine would need to access them.
It does not need to be portable.

I've not seen any "6-10" IDE USB drive bays.
Here is a 2 slot one
https://www.amazon.com/Awolf-Multi-function-Docking-Station-Enclosure/dp/B01790511Q

But...how large are these drive? IDE, they can't be very large. And they are old. Possibility of dying soon.

Copy that data off to one or two new SATA drives.

Alright.

Most are probably about 160GB at the most. There might be a couple 320GB ones in there too.
Aye, I'm guessing that they'd be on the way out as well.

 

[USAFRet]

Alright.

Most are probably about 160GB at the most. There might be a couple 320GB ones in there too.
Aye, I'm guessing that they'd be on the way out as well.

Covered with a single 2 or 3TB SATA drive.

 

[Ropuchy]

Alright.

Most are probably about 160GB at the most. There might be a couple 320GB ones in there too.
Aye, I'm guessing that they'd be on the way out as well.

Covered with a single 2 or 3TB SATA drive.

Yeah, I know.
This would be more of a just for fun sort of thing.

But yeah, I'll just close this thread down, then.

 

[thx1138v2]

Here's a 5 bay rack but you have to supply power and connectivity.
https://www.amazon.com/Sans-Digital-HDDRACK5-5-Bay-Organizing/dp/B001LF40KE

They will stack to give you 10 bays but that also means two power supplies.