On Saturday, March 7, 2015 at 3:54:27 PM UTC-8, Karl Townsend wrote:
External hard drives!

You bring up a good point for the future. This box has 6 USB.
Any big deal to add more USBs?

USB2 is slow and USB3 is new. Neither can keep up with a good hard
disk, let alone the current or next-generation of flash drives.

Rather, if you plan a big bunch of disks connected, you should look at
SAS/SATA RAID systems; one card with two connectors can support
four to eight SATA(internal) or eSATA (external) drives with good throughput.
Don't get the high-price cards with full RAID support, let the pros buy
those, and buy their old cards on eBay...

Second-best is to use Firewire, which can daisy-chain dozens of external
drives from a single port.