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You know Lemmy is breaking trough when you also get spam.

I can fully relate. Don’t go cheap and keep it cool. For the last few years I used a JBOD enclosure for 3.5in disks with four 2.5in SSDs, I removed the cover and had no needs for fans. Super quiet, and the only viable way to get 4x4Gb added to my laptop-server.

Now I moved to a mid size desktop pc-server, and relocated the four ssds inside the case on sata cables. Cabt really see the speed difference for the workload of the server.

I don’t mean there is no speed difference (before somebody freaks out), but that is not noticeable because I only access the data via network for all my use cases.

I used external USB drives for decades. Provided you buy better quality enclosures, external powered ones, they are fine.

Still going internal is better for tidyness, speed and that accidental cable pull that might always happen with external dangling cables LOL. (Happened).