I've had a general-purpose IDE/SATA connector for a few years, but it
runs into a 2TB limit with modern large drives.
Most SATA-only connectors have a 2TB, or don't mention what limit
they may have. The key feature of this one is that it claims to cope
with drives up to 6TB (though a label on the bottom says 4TB); I've
tried it up to 4TB, which is what I'm using in the current fileserver,
and not had any problems.
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Connectivity is USB3 or eSATA. I've only used USB, and it seems happy
to saturate a USB2 link.
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Rather than using a free-floating connector, drives are inserted into
a slot on top of the machine, onto a connector protected by a
dust-shutter.
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Why it's not exactly cuboid (yes, the top does slope, and the drives
aren't inserted on the vertical either) is a question for the
designers; if one had several of these side by side there'd be a fair
bit of wasted space. But it could be worse.
Any dock/connector ought to work without hassles; I'm recommending
this one because it's solidly built and at least a bit of thought
seems to have gone into the design.
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