I have an old OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 4 Bay Hard drive RAID Enclosure (1st generation) but I can’t get it to be recognized by a computer. Mostly trying with linux over usb.
I’ve been thinking about maybe removing the electronics in it and just using it as an enclosure. It holds 4 drives nicely with a fan. Any thoughts about what I could use, I’m fine with just a USB interface. I don’t need fast data access.
EDIT: other hardware I already have that could be useful:
- 1 - Intel NUC NUC5i7RYH
- 1 - Intel NUC NUC6CAY
- 2 - PINE A64+ 1GB
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I found this picture, which could be exactly what you could want (I believe it is a Rock Pi SATA HAT ?), of course, now, time to find what hardware can do that for the cheapest!
Yeah that HAT looks pretty sweet, haven’t found a place to buy it though.