This black friday, I purchased two 20TB WD elements for media storage and photo/video editing archive. I already have two other 3.5" external drives (16TB and 8TB).
I will be also getting a Mac Mini M4 and I am looking for an affordable solution to to share these drives between my PC and Mac.
I need fast read/write speeds (200+ MB/s) and I don't need to access these drives out of my home. I am not inclined toward NAS because my router has only one 10Gb port and the rest are at 1Gb. If I do NAS, I will have to get a beefy router and the DS423+,at that point I will be looking at $1500+ CAD price tag.
The solution that I have found is a multi-bay dock station + 10 Gbps USB switch which will be around $350 CAD)
On the other hand, I have heard of horror stories of disk corruption due to SATA to USB interface and controller in these kind of docks.
This Sabrent enclosure seems to be half decent and I really like the separate on/off switch for each drive (quieter working environment).
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I Also have this Ugreen USB switch which I got recently and from initial testing, I see that it can manage 200 MB/s speeds through USB-C.
Should I go ahead with this setup or is there a better solution that I am missing?
