Re: OT: SATA Backplanes drivebays and caddies

John Miller wrote:

> Nate Duehr wrote:
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>>> Bob wrote:
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>>>  crickets, cicadas and frogs 
>>> Alternatively if you can think of a better forum for this post a link
>>> would also be appreciated.
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>> The folks on the Debian-ISP list probably deal with this type of
>> hardware quite a bit more than the average Debian home user on the
>> main user list?
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> Forwarding this to debian-isp, but I'll try to answer in the meantime. 
>   

Thanks for that, I'll check that list on the gooja view thingy  

> Are your PCs rackmount, server-class towers, or regular consumer cases? 
> The servers I've worked with have all had their caddies and backplanes
> provided by the case manufacturer; all the caddies have been
> interchangeable, but not between server/case manufacturers.  I've not
> seen a server case manufacturer that also makes a single-drive hotswap
> bay.  I haven't seen a desktop case with built-in hotswap, either.
>   

I'm using a variety of consumer cases so I'm talking about the units that slide into the CDRom bays, there are lots of them about but most seem to do 3, 4 & 5 bay jobs that take up 2 or 3 half height drive bays and utilise slim trays OR single drive bays that use a rugged enclosure that isn't interchangeable with anything.

> >From Googling around, I found cooldrives.com, which advertises external
> drive enclosures.  Perhaps something like that's an option for you? 
> Also looks like Thermaltake makes a single-drive SATA hotswap bay, which
> could be useful  Good luck to you in your search!
>   

Cooldrives came up in my search as well and I could go external but for the moment I'd rather not, our file server and my PC has 10 half height bays (the whole front is CDRom bays) and various workstations have between 3 and 5 bays, it just occurred to me that a lot of admin, tasks would be so much easer if I could put any drive in any box.

Down \/ there Joe put me onto www.startech.com who have a tray less system in 4 , 3 & 1 bay varieties which, assuming I can find them in Singapore, will be perfect.

Thanks for you help.

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