2.5" AND 3.5" External Enclosure

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I have searched high and low looking for an answer (I know, people say this all the time) but I can't seem to get the correct search terms. I apologize.

I have two 2.5" drives and two 3.5" drives. Is there a multiple bay (ideally 4-bay) external enclosure that will hold both 2.5" and 3.5" at the same time?

Along the same lines, can a 1TB 2.5" drive RAID with a 1TB 3.5" drive?

Either way, I would really love to consolidate all my drives into one box instead of different enclosures taking up ports.

Thank you.
 
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This Synology DSM will do it: https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/overview/DS414j
I think you'll find most 4 bay NAS units will support both SSDs and HDDs.

There's nothing to stop you making a RAID array combining SSDs and HDDs, but in that case you'd be limited by the slowest drive... your HDDs. In other words your ~$600 1TB SSDs will be running at the speed of a ~$80 HDD. You're also limited by the interface, either network (1Gbps, which will hamstring an SSD) or USB3, which should run reasonably well.

If you have two HDDs of the same size & two SSDs of the same size, you could create a mirror (redundant, but only 50% space is usable) or striped array (100% usable, fast, though no redundancy). In either case though, I'd...
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This Synology DSM will do it: https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/overview/DS414j
I think you'll find most 4 bay NAS units will support both SSDs and HDDs.

There's nothing to stop you making a RAID array combining SSDs and HDDs, but in that case you'd be limited by the slowest drive... your HDDs. In other words your ~$600 1TB SSDs will be running at the speed of a ~$80 HDD. You're also limited by the interface, either network (1Gbps, which will hamstring an SSD) or USB3, which should run reasonably well.

If you have two HDDs of the same size & two SSDs of the same size, you could create a mirror (redundant, but only 50% space is usable) or striped array (100% usable, fast, though no redundancy). In either case though, I'd suggest you keep the SSDs and HDDs in separate RAID Arrays. Also, note that there's not much to be gained in Striping SSDs in an external enclosure, as a single SSD will can pretty much max USB 3.0 on its own.
 
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