If I can’t own it, I’m not buying it.

As someone who used to download C64 games in the 1980s, from a BBS, trust me. Pirating existed decades before BitTorrent.

Decades.

That’s actually a lot better than I was expecting. Thanks for the info!

Yeah, I’ve been looking at those as well.

I was also considering something more like this, and moving the drives out of the server and I to just an enclosure.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/196524846940?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=vnd-wzNtQhm&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=inwhn8kcste&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

I’m just not sure how energy hungry it would be if I only filled 4 out of 24 bays.

It really doesn’t, honestly. I currently have two of the hard drives mounted in 5.25 to 3.5 adapters where that cage would go, and two of the others are the ones that won’t quite fit, so I’d have to move both of them to make it close properly.

It really does look like I need a different case to put it all in.

That’s about the way I was leaning, to just get a bigger case, but the problem is, the current system is mATX, so I would need all new internals, and then, as you say, that goes quite a bit over my current budget.

I’ll keep looking. Thanks.

It is the larger (relatively speaking. It’s still small compared to my and my daughter’s machines) mini tower.

But I’m not sure I can fit that cage. There’s room for 2 5.25" drives, and that cage looks to be the size of 3 of them stacked atop each other.

But thanks for the suggestions.

Interesting, sadly I no longer remember my old number, nor do I have access to the email I used 25+ years ago.

Bring back icq.