TriX wrote:
The question is what is the quality of the drive in that enclosure. And the second question is, how are you going to back up that 14TB, and if that drive goes belly up, are you willing to lose 14TB of data. “Big” storage is a mixed blessing - painful to back up and a huge loss of data if it fails. Personally, I would prefer to have a mirrored pair of smaller, enterprise class drives. It’s not as simple as $/TB, but just my opinion.
For HDD's, I buy the quality I want (enterprise class for archival storage) and put it in an external case with a fan (Rosewill RX-358, currently on a Black Friday deal).
Heat is the enemy, and a lot of external cases are plastic with poor ventilation (I used to have a 6" clip on desk fan positioned over a Buffalo case to prevent the drive from overheating). Best to monitor drive temps (I use HardDisk Sentinel, paid). Even SSD's can heat up with prolonged writes...
For an external SSD case, I use a cheap Wavlink (Newegg) USB3 enclosure.
I like it because I can leave the top off to increase ventilation.
My OLD notebook, T430, has a 2nd bay for a DVD drive, but the drive is removable, and a caddy for an HDD or an SDD slips right in.