Help with External Hard Drive Enclosures

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bloodlust22

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I'm looking at expanding my storage has my computer is full. Does anyone know anything about external hard drive enclosures? I want to add about 4-5 drives that I already have and depending on whats on them have been swapping them out on my computer to get the movies off them when I want to watch them. It seems all the external hard drive enclosure I see on newegg.com are RAID enclosures. I don't want RAID, I just want independent legacy drives. Can these RAID enclosures be used for non RAID setup allowing each drive to be it's own independent drive? Any help or examples would be great. I don't really understand RAID and from what I've read about it, Don't really see the need for it in my application. Also RAID wouldn't work for me as the HDD's I already have vary in size from 500GB to 4TB. Please help.
 
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if all your external drives are SATA, just buy a "toaster". it's that module into which you plug in a bare 2.5" or 3.5" drive, like bread into a toaster. should be able to find them for $30 to $50. this way you can plug in any drive, read from it, and use it.

some toasters are even 2-slice toasters, so you can plug in a 500G and a 1.5T drive at the same time and copy between them or listen to music from one while manipulating images on the other.
 
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