On 2020-08-27 12:21, Paul wrote:
bad sector wrote:

I'm planning my move to ssd's and want to replace my spinners cage
rack with a 4, 6, or 8-bay ssd rack, one of those that stack'em
standing on edge, which is what I have now for the 3.5" spinners with
6 bays. What I DON'T want EVER AGAIN are the very confusing lights and
switches that are NOT aligned with the bays, as on my present one. A
reasonable price would help too.


There are still cables present. While you could use
a SATA backplane, the cables still have to connect
somewhere to it. And "8 bays" would be a lot of cables
to be slugging around. You then have to figure out whether
straight, left-angle, or right-angle connectors are
required.

The cage rack is likely proprietary, so if someone
makes a solution, it probably doesn't fit a PC case
unless it's *their* PC case. You would have to be
very careful of dimensions, for it to be compatible
by accident. The cage could always start with the
3.5" formfactor dimensions as an outer dimension and
work inwards. With some loss of volume.

Â*Â* Paul

The number of bays is for handy storage, I have 6 now but can only use 4
plugged-in because #5 & #6 are paired and need to be PATA for the
optical disk. Even with 4 available I never have more tha 3 plugged-in
at once (mostly only one, two when making backups or other copies).
Always plugged-in with old PATA drives worked because I had physical
swithches on the power wires. I want physical control over hardware,
that's why I use usb wifi too, after castrating any onboard wireless.

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