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I am not very familiar with high-end computer hardware.

Currently I have 7-8 USB hard drives. I find it very messy to attach them to computer with 8 USB cables and then 8 power adapters and then USB hub.

Is there any rack or anything available so that I don't need to attach them separately? Ideally, I could put 10 hard drives in slot, which will take care of power supply, and then from that rack I have only one power cable and one USB cable which I can join to my computer.

I don't know what to call that thing.

Excellll
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user191542
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They are called "External USB drive enclosures." 10 bay enclosures arent cheap, though.

Here is an example of one.

Keltari
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Do they have to be external? Most "external" drives are really just internal drives with some added circuitry to allow them to connect over USB. You can probably remove the casing on them and plug them into the SATA or IDE ports on your motherboard. (depending on the age of the drive). You can also get PCI cards with additional SATA or IDE ports if you don't have enough. These are usually quite inexpensive. You can even get cages similar to this that mount in 5.25 inch drive bays, to allow you to more easily remove the drives.

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