"find feeble HDD enclosures that are prone to failure." How about NAS trays? Not a $2500 NAS, but just the trays/mounts for a stereotypical desktop. I've don

"find feeble HDD enclosures that are prone to failure." How about NAS trays? Not a $2500 NAS, but just the trays/mounts for a stereotypical desktop. I've done that for about 15 years now, insert the drive for freebsd / linux / windows / whatever and when you're done, remove the drive, maybe insert a different one. It solves a lot of double/tripe boot OS problems to only have one OS per drive and as many drives as you want to buy trays for. I've had excellent result with both the old PATA drives/trays and SATA. No serious problems in 15 years. Superficially its "giant tower case only" however you could mount a receptacle in a tiny desktop case with mini-itx and homemade NAS and just insert data drives not OS drives.