Re: OT: SATA Backplanes drivebays and caddies

Bob wrote:
> Sorry for the OT post but I know a few round here are well informed on
> the storage industry.
>
> I'm just about to migrate a bunch of PCs to SATA from IDE as the IDE
> drive caddies are failing [0] and I already have my server and a few
> PCs using SATA, what I'm looking for is a drivebay / backplane
> manufacturer that has 5, 4, 3 and 1 slot internal bays available that
> use the *same* tray / housing / caddie.
>
> The tray / housing / caddie doesn't have to be rugged [1] or cover the
> whole drive, it would just be *really* convenient to be able to move
> drives around at will.
>
> My search (below) hasn't helped much, has anyone round here got any
> suggestions?
> sata "removable (disk | drive | harddrive) (caddy | bay | drawer |
> tray)" single multi
>
> Thanks
>
> [0] I think all ATA removable bays take a bunch of liberties with the
> standard anyway and these were cheap and are old
> [1] which I suppose by definition means it's not a caddie
<fx> crickets, cicadas and frogs </fx>
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Thanks

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