I’ve got 4 x 16TB and 2 x 5TB USB HDDs currently running a Chia farm on a RPi v4 4GB. I’m thinking of using them for a Storj node instead, but I understand it could take 1-2 years to fill even one 16TB drive, so in the meantime I want to keep the other drives running the Chia farm.

I want to shuck the 4 x 16TB drives into an enclosure (Mediasonic HF2-SU3S3) to make things tidier, but I’ll only be able to connect that to a single RPi via USB (or I could use a SFF Lenovo M700 PC instead of the RPi), so that will only work if Chia and Storj can run together on the same machine, with 1 drive assigned to Storj and the other three assigned to Chia (I assume the enclosure is just like a USB hub, so the machine still sees all the drives as separate).

If that won’t work and I’ll need two machines, I’ll need to get a s/h tower PC case with 4+ 3.5" bays for the drives, and then get some SATA to USB adapters to connect them to the respective machines.

So I need to know whether I can just use one machine before I decide whether to buy an enclosure or a PC case.