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    SATA Hotswap bays

    I have 6 Hard drive bays, and would like some more.

    So i can use my 2 x 5" drive bays as get one of these

    http://www.ebuyer.com/245050-startec...ne-hsb320satbk

    But damn they are expensive! any cheaper ones you have seen? or a cheaper way to get 3 drives in there? i dont care about hotswap

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    Re: SATA Hotswap bays

    Do you have enough sata ports on you mobo to support more drives or are you using a sata card?

    In my old chieftec dragon case I just fashioned hard drive spacers out of foam rubber and put them in a stack of three in the 5.25 bay area bound by long cable ties, no the prettiest thing but was effective and damn quiet.

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    Re: SATA Hotswap bays

    Waste of space tbh mate, 5in3s are much better meaning you can have 5 HDDs in 3 x 5.25" drive bays. Price wise hmm they are cheap? I only buy Supermicro and they units are close to £100 but the quality is superb.

    Stay away from crap plastic and 40/60/80mm noisy as hell fans...

    Supermicro unit:

    http://www.supermicro.com/products/a...CSE-M35T-1.cfm

    I have three of them backplanes (15 HDDs in total) plus three of these fans as Delta ones are not for my ears...

    http://www.scan.co.uk/products/92mm-...quiet-case-fan

    /EDIT

    Scan are selling the CSE-M35T1 for £85 in black, bargain!

    http://www.scan.co.uk/products/super...oogle+shopping

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    Re: SATA Hotswap bays

    I have a RAID card, i need them to be snug in there though. Even just some drive rails that will do 3 drives would be fine

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    Re: SATA Hotswap bays

    Quote Originally Posted by spoon_ View Post
    Waste of space tbh mate, 5in3s are much better meaning you can have 5 HDDs in 3 x 5.25" drive bays. Price wise hmm they are cheap? I only buy Supermicro and they units are close to £100 but the quality is superb.

    Stay away from crap plastic and 40/60/80mm noisy as hell fans...
    I cant, i only have 2 bays. Not bothered about fans, i will sort that

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    Re: SATA Hotswap bays

    Someone selling some just now in for sale section: http://forums.hexus.net/classifieds-...rw-drives.html
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