I'm looking for an external hard drive enclosure, and I just cannot find anything I like! Although having multiple bays would be nice, I decided to not look for one of those because the prices get really large. In addition to that there's so many reviews of these devices that say the enclosures were DOA, they failed for no good reason, or were bad for other reasons like terrible cooling.
So the first thing that jumped into my head was, "what would it take to build one of these"? Well I imagine that the structure and the cooling fan would be pretty straight forward, so the SATA to eSATAp and/or USB would be the challenging bit. Something like that seems a bit beyond me for the time being. I'm curious, what exactly is involved with designing such an interface?