It's a choice. Plus why would you want the host computer with the drives? I prefer to segregate.
Anyway I have the 4 bay version and am plenty happy. On Jul 27, 2011 6:42 PM, "Joshua MacCraw" <[email protected]> wrote: > At $300+ for that? Lol, external multi-bay cases are way overpriced vs > standard pc cases that have more bays! Top it off it's not even native raid > but rather 2x port multipliers to a raid card in a PC. > > My thermaltake case for my workstation is 12 bays 5.25" and was cheaper than > this external with the advantage that host pc also fits in. Add 4 of the 3-> > 5 drive bay adapters it could hold 20 drives if you wanted but that gets > expensive fast @ $100/ea.
