I got sick of running out of space and didn’t want to give up my dGPU by getting a m.2 bay. I happened to have a few 4TB sata drives sitting around… so I stuck them to the back of my screen.
Unfortunately they draw too much power on start-up to all turn on at the same time. Thankfully, the enclosure I got has a power switch, so I’ll just have to turn them off/on as needed. It’s not perfect, but maybe it’s good enough. Time will tell.
It’s not quite as portable as the m.2 expansion bay, but very cool
Welcome to the >10TB club 
what kind of cabling and actual connectors and hub? are those exactly? sata device maybe the actual disk inside, but looks like usb to me? how does this connect to the actual FW exactly?
back in the ancient days, I remember bios firmware settings being called staggered startup, for actual storage devices (mechanical) in such situations 
3x sabrent enclosures and an anker 4x USB hub. The hub connects via type c so I can remove the expansion card and plug it in directly, protecting the cable from mechanical abuse.
The drives are only ~500MB/s, so I’m not too worried about speed losses.
Oh my God, I thought 10 was the limit besides using the expansion bay NVMe’s and expansion slot storage cards. Especially when you have the graphics card module. Props.
Much cleaner. 10/10
