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ssd sata rack w. happy customers?
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. -- Artificial Stupidity will never be competitive |
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ssd sata rack w. happy customers?
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. Paul |
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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. -- If DIY were a religion, hmmm.. I just made it one. |
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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. I don't remember ever buying a computer case that didn't have drive bays (aka cages) hence I never had to go looking around to see who else might manufacture drive cages to fit inside whatever computer case I chose. You didn't mention which mobo you have, or are considering on buying. Mine came with 3 m.2 slots to mount NVMe SSDs on the mobo. With three 8 TB m.2 NVMe SSDs, I could have up to 24 TB of very fast storage (at around a cost of $4500); however, using an m.2 slot on my mobo means sacrificing a pair of SATA ports. I went with just one 1 TB m.2 NVMe SSD (Samsung 970 PRO @ $350) which disable 2 SATA ports, and kept my other SATA ports for two HDDs (data, backups), one Bluray burner, one 3.5" SSD, and two spares for later expansion. I had an old 3.5" SSD that I moved over to the new case, because both its side panels are removable, and the mobo panel's backside has a slot for a 3.5" drive (albeit a thin one, like for an SSD). I like having the 2nd side panel, so I can run cables behind the mobo plate to keep them hidden, so the inside stays neat (it has a window in the other side panel). Without knowing what you already have for a computer case, it could, say, have three 5.25" bays and two 3.5" bays. It might even have a backside slot on the mobo plate to add one there. You could even mount a couple cased SSDs at the bottom of the case using self-stick velcro strips. You also don't say if you're installing 2.5" or 3.5" SSDs (in cases versus just the PCBs with connectors). With nude SSD PCBs (no cases), you could probably stick up to 4 onto a 5.25" bay adapter (that has a solid base instead of just the 2-piece adapter) using self-stick velcro strips. Getting a drive cage with a backplane would be neater (providing you could hide all the cables, or make custom ones at just the distance from the PSU to the backplane connectors), but you'll have to buy a case that has a backplaned drive cage. You won't find it separately, though, and will have to buy a case with that type of drive cage. Do these drives have to be internal to the computer case? If not, why not get an external drive case that houses multiple drives and connects via [e]SATA? Or get an external cage with a SAS controller; see: https://storage.microsemi.com/nr/rdo...tavalue_13.pdf If you don't want an external SAS/SATA drive cage, you can get internal SAS/SATA drive cages that fit inside a 5.25" drive bay and can hold up to six to eight 2.5" SATA drives. See: https://www.newegg.com/athena-power-...82E16816119045 https://www.newegg.com/athena-power-...82E16816119044 With 8 of these (https://www.newegg.com/samsung-7-6tb/p/0D9-0009-003T3), you could have 61 TB of fast storage (but not as fast as NVMe) at a whopping cost of $9832, and you might have more than one 5.25" drive bay to use multiple of these bay-mounted drive cages. |
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On 2020-08-27 17:22, VanguardLH 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. I don't remember ever buying a computer case that didn't have drive bays (aka cages) hence I never had to go looking around to see who else might manufacture drive cages to fit inside whatever computer case I chose. You didn't mention which mobo you have, or are considering on buying. Mine came with 3 m.2 slots to mount NVMe SSDs on the mobo. With three 8 TB m.2 NVMe SSDs, I could have up to 24 TB of very fast storage (at around a cost of $4500); however, using an m.2 slot on my mobo means sacrificing a pair of SATA ports. I went with just one 1 TB m.2 NVMe SSD (Samsung 970 PRO @ $350) which disable 2 SATA ports, and kept my other SATA ports for two HDDs (data, backups), one Bluray burner, one 3.5" SSD, and two spares for later expansion. I had an old 3.5" SSD that I moved over to the new case, because both its side panels are removable, and the mobo panel's backside has a slot for a 3.5" drive (albeit a thin one, like for an SSD). I like having the 2nd side panel, so I can run cables behind the mobo plate to keep them hidden, so the inside stays neat (it has a window in the other side panel). Without knowing what you already have for a computer case, it could, say, have three 5.25" bays and two 3.5" bays. It might even have a backside slot on the mobo plate to add one there. You could even mount a couple cased SSDs at the bottom of the case using self-stick velcro strips. You also don't say if you're installing 2.5" or 3.5" SSDs (in cases versus just the PCBs with connectors). With nude SSD PCBs (no cases), you could probably stick up to 4 onto a 5.25" bay adapter (that has a solid base instead of just the 2-piece adapter) using self-stick velcro strips. Getting a drive cage with a backplane would be neater (providing you could hide all the cables, or make custom ones at just the distance from the PSU to the backplane connectors), but you'll have to buy a case that has a backplaned drive cage. You won't find it separately, though, and will have to buy a case with that type of drive cage. Do these drives have to be internal to the computer case? If not, why not get an external drive case that houses multiple drives and connects via [e]SATA? Or get an external cage with a SAS controller; see: https://storage.microsemi.com/nr/rdo...tavalue_13.pdf If you don't want an external SAS/SATA drive cage, you can get internal SAS/SATA drive cages that fit inside a 5.25" drive bay and can hold up to six to eight 2.5" SATA drives. See: https://www.newegg.com/athena-power-...82E16816119045 https://www.newegg.com/athena-power-...82E16816119044 With 8 of these (https://www.newegg.com/samsung-7-6tb/p/0D9-0009-003T3), you could have 61 TB of fast storage (but not as fast as NVMe) at a whopping cost of $9832, and you might have more than one 5.25" drive bay to use multiple of these bay-mounted drive cages. Wow, thanks very much for the info, some of those PRICES(!) would dent my beer budget and that would have to be a no-no The layout I have in mind would resemble this https://www.supermicro.com/sites/def...ive-Kits-B.png I really don't need 8 bays but that's how many there is room for if using 2.5's and what most come with. It's OK, I use the extra ones to stow the other drives out of harm's way so to speak. I don't relate to the other layouts where you have a pair of double bays one on top of another, as I mostly count from left to right or top to bottom, never a mix of those or right to left, bottom to top, nor do I count saying zero when I raise my thumb. As far as any hardware I prefer the mechanical control of removing/inserting on need, haven't used an 'inside' drive slot for 30 years and that has saved many of my drives from disaster. Don't need much speed either, I'm drifting toward ssd's because that's where the road is going, because I do need to feed new drives to the monster, AND because I'm up to here with ANY form of noise at all! I use Linux and you might know that there we mount and unmount things all the time to access them. This is sometimes done automatically but I try to interdict that and instead mount on need and immediately unmount after even dozens of times a session. Finally in today's strangleware snoop-city I start by castrating any onboard wifi and use only usb dongles that "I" control and not some (especially closed code) gigavirus called an OS. What I have now is similar but 3.5" rack which I should have asked people about before buying it because it's annunciator lights are completely out of step with the bays so every time I want to put a pen on one of them tiny switchews I have to count from the left to know which one is who. And THAT was the puropose of this post, to see if anyone might have some good words for one make or another, to not repeat my la$t mi$take. -- If DIY were a religion, hmmm... I just made it one. |
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