I've got a handful of 4-bay Mediasonic Proboxes, they're about as barebones of a JBOD enclosure as you can get and run about $110 each unless they're on sale. I have stuffed these things with over 40TB of drives and they've worked solidly for many years.

They typically present as 4 USB connected external drives, which you can softraid into whatever. They also support eSATA. At one point I had 3 of these plugged into a spare intel NUC and used it as a NAS running first Windows, then Ubuntu, then unRAID over about 5 years. It wasn't blazing fast, but got the job done for home use.

I love seeing these cheap builds like this. IMHO NAS boxes are way overpriced, and underpowered. I had multiples the performance and capability piecemeal hacking together my old setup than buying the all-in-one systems that will lose vendor coverage in 2 years.

Mine randomly or at least consistently eather, placed drives in hibernation and spun them down. This created havoc.

Weird, I've never had that problem. You do have to remember to set the sync mode to off and it seems fine after that. It may have been an OS setting that was letting the drives spin down if they were doing so after that.

Thanks! I resold it 10 years after I got it :)