Cost-effective Solution for You to Build Large Capacity Hard Drives

Recently, large capacity HDDs and SSDs in the market are continually very expensive and even out of stock due to some reasons, which has become the biggest obstacle for many users all over the world. The whole storage market has begun to set off waves.
Besides NAS products, TerraMaster is also professional in high-capacity USB array cabinets and high-speed lightning array cabinets. To address the urgent needs of users who lack large capacity SSDs/ HDDs, TerraMaster provides users here perfect solutions with high performance, stable supply and high flexibility.


Solution 1: PC + USB array cabinet
At present, a 16TB hard drive sells for as much as around $700 and is even out of stock, while a 4TB hard drive is around $84 and is in sufficient supply. A TerraMaster 5-bay D5-300 USB3.1 array cabinet is $269, so a 5-bay hard drive cabinet + 5 x 4TB hard disks (in RAID0 mode) have a capacity of up to 20TB, and it only costs $689. It costs less to obtain a larger capacity, which is the best choice at present.

If you need more capacity, you can connect multiple TerraMaster USB array cabinets simultaneously to the PC USB ports. If the USB interface is not enough, it can also be extended via a USB Hub. Through the RAID 0 function supported by Windows or Mac system itself, you can easily build a hard disk storage space larger than 100TB- 200TB.

Solution 2: PC + Thunderbolt 3 array cabinet

Similar to the first solution, the more hard disks the array cabinet supports, the more hard disk space can be combined. Compared with the USB array cabinet, the Thunderbolt 3 array cabinet has faster speed and higher efficiency.

Thunderbolt 3 device supports up to 6 devices connected in a daisy chain at the same time. Therefore, if six 8-bay D8 Thunderbolt3 are connected and they are all equipped with 16TB hard drives, a single device can have a maximum capacity of 128TB, and 6 devices can reach an astonishing storage capacity of 768TB.

Conclusion:

If you just need to expand the storage capacity and don't want to spend too much, the speed of USB3.1 is enough to meet the requirements of operation, you can consider the multiple TerraMaster D5-300 USB3.1 arrays.

For the requirements of storage capacity and transmission speed at the same time, the TerraMaster D5/D8 Thunderbolt3 product series are recommended, which is more efficient and safe with the unique Daisy Chain function.