I have an old OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 4 Bay Hard drive RAID Enclosure (1st generation) but I can’t get it to be recognized by a computer. Mostly trying with linux over usb.

I’ve been thinking about maybe removing the electronics in it and just using it as an enclosure. It holds 4 drives nicely with a fan. Any thoughts about what I could use, I’m fine with just a USB interface. I don’t need fast data access.

EDIT: other hardware I already have that could be useful:

  • 1 - Intel NUC NUC5i7RYH
  • 1 - Intel NUC NUC6CAY
  • 2 - PINE A64+ 1GB
  • radecOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Power supply of those 3.5" discs will be the main problem, as you can’t do that over USB.

    Yeah I would have to come up with some other way to power the drives, the OWC enclosure has a power supply, but not sure I could harvest what I need. I’m going to have to open it up and see how useful it might be.

    Another thought is this m.2 to sata adapter that I could put in the NUC5. I would still have to figure out power though.

    edit: link to adapter https://www.ebay.com/itm/285219307946