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danielquinn@lemmy.ca 1 week agoWhat exactly is an external drive case? Are you just talking about a USB enclosure for a single drive or something that can somehow hold multiple drives and interface over something more stable than USB?
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
The technical term seems to be a JBOD bay. (Just a Bunch Of Disks)
Basic ones are probably usb, ideally you have something that has a SFF port. Modern ones might also have thunderbolt.
Finding a micropc that supports SFF out of the box might be a challenge but some do support pci express cards.
Apparently there also exists something like Oculink which is pci over cable but i know even less about that one.