I held on to various SATA hard drives because I geek out over always protecting my data. I backup to the cloud, but I also keep at least two copies of all data on separate hard drives at home (as well as one in the cloud with Carbonite), regularly backing them up to each other, sort of as a manual “RAID.” While looking for a USB hub for the large number of external drives that I’ve amassed, I came across this 10-bay hard drive hub. This thing will pay for itself!

Instead of TEN separate external hard drive powers and USB drives, I only need one USB port and one power station (a standard one as opposed to ten proprietary ones). I literally broke open all of the remaining large denomination hard drives I have (except for one that is a logical 16TB drive made up of two 8TB drives). There is individual power for each drive, so I can actually turn some of them off for MONTHS if I want to, saving even more energy and having them at the ready for synchronizing (with BeyondCompare software) at my convenience.

Pictured here next to a printer that I usually leave covered in a corner of my home office in part to keep it from being in the sun, is the “Big Kahuna” 16TB drive on top of the ten-drive bay.