On 9/15/20 1:07 PM, John Stoffel wrote:
"Roger" == Roger Heflin <rogerheflin@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
I've been looking at them for a while now, but hesitating
because... not sure why. I'm using a CoolerMaster case with five
5.25" bays, plus a 3.5" bay external, and another three or four
internal 3.5" bays. Works great. Nice and plain and not flashing
lights or other bling. And not too loud either. Which is good.
But I've used crappy drive cages before, crappy hot swap ones. Not
good. And I think it's time I just went with a 4U rack mount with a
bunch of hot swap bays, if I could only find one that wasn't an arm
and a leg.
Roger> I have had good luck with the ICY DOCK brand how swap I have 4
Roger> different 4 bay-3bay ones spanning 6+ years and they all seem
Roger> to just work. And each newer version seemed to have improved
Roger> design from the prior ones (plugs easier to get to, and such).
Thanks for the recommendation! I'll be looking at these for
sure. Just wish my case could hold two of them. It would be nice if
they made a 2.5 x 5.25" to 4 x 3.5" disk carrier, so I could stuff two
of them into my 5 exposed 5.25" bays. *grin*
John,
Drive cages come in varity of sizes. You have 1 to 1, 2 to 3, 3 to 4
and 4 to 5. Mix and match to fill all 5 bays with best density of 3.5
inch bays. Here is one example and I am sure you can find many.
https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=hot+swap+bay&N=100007599%20600551589&name=SSD+%2F+HDD+Accessories&Order=4
I have three cages, two istar and 1 icy doc. My icy dock lost one bay.
The others are holding a bit better. So, YMMV. However, expect them to
have noisy fans. You may want to change to quieter/reliable ones.
Regards
Ramesh
