Comments on: Sans Digital TowerRAID TR4M-B and Acer easyStore Home Server

By: Kam

Kam — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:32:45 +0000

Hi Erik, the photo is up-to-date as I have moved 2 HD from the Acer Home Server to the Sans Digital eSATA enclosure. Good luck in finding your enclosures, let us know how it goes.

By: erik

erik — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:03:57 +0000

it seems like your photo of your acer easy store is outdated because only two hard drive lights are on but you say you have filled them all. i just put my fourth 1 tb drive in the easystore. now its time to look for esata enclosures. thanks for the suggestions.

By: Kam

Kam — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 05:23:22 +0000

24 is a lot of hard drive to manage. I used to have up to 8 external drives plus the 6 internal drives with my previous home server setup but I found that the server runs really hot and it is not very energy efficient. So I consolidated the drives to TB drives and move the files to the new Home Server. If you have enough USB ports, you can hook up all your external drives to the server. If you are running out of USB ports, you can always add more with USB PCI adapters. However, USB connections are considered slower than eSATA connection. Alternatively, you can get the Sans Digital TowerRAID TR8M which can host 8 drives in one enclosure. If you get three of them, you will have enough room for all your 24 drives.

By: ahmed alrasheed

ahmed alrasheed — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:19:07 +0000

i attempted some thing like this before but ended up reverting back to vista

i have a 24 hard drive case enclosure and currently 16 of them are used

i only need them for storage so i got my self 2 raid controllers and added them to the MB although i dont really need one…

if you know a way that i can attach the whole 24 harddrives into a whs system it will be great

because currently with the raid cards it doesn’t identify the HD’s cirrectly

By: How-to: Expand the storage capacity of an Acer Aspire easyStore with eSATA

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By: Setting up ESata Port Multiplication with the Acer Aspire easyStore

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