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External SATA back panel thing?

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Striph

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I have an ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe with 2 pair of 2 SATA connectors on the board, I'm currently using a pair of IDE drives and 2 IDE DVD burners, and wanted to find some sort of way to build an external SATA storage box to house say two to four drives. I was planning on running the sata cables out the back of the case through a panel slot, but saw this pic and figured if I could find this then that'd solve my power problem, and I could then easily disconnect the unit, anyone know of where I could buy one of these little sata backpanel slot covers?

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IIRC, it ships with some newer Asus boards. I am able to verify that looking on Newegg, it's one of the accessoires for their 'Premium' mobos. I was unable to find it separately though, and there may be other people that make them. Good luck, hopefully the little clue about them shipping with some Asus boards will put you on the right track.
 
I just put together an external drive and I have to say this thing is beautiful. I ordered a "Apricorn EZ Bus DTS 3.5" SATA Backup System" from Newegg ($70 and well worth it). Very strong and stylish all aluminum enclosure with a big and quiet 120mm fan mounted under the HDD (Hard Drive) that sucks air in from two low profile mesh grills in front and exhausts it out the back. While operating, the crimson on light glows from the intake mesh screens for a really classy appearance. Sits flat or on it's side with an included stand. Very, very quiet while operating and keeps everything incredibly cool. Holds a 3.5" SATA HDD only. Don't have SATA, no problem, it comes with a SATA PCI card and software (upgrade time for you IDE guys) plus 2 different backup utilities.

I mated it with a 160GB WD-1600 Caviar SATA HDD (8MB buffer, $90 from Directron on sale) and I have an incredibly high quality backup HDD for $160 total. This is about what a prebuilt external 80-120GB HDD is going for, on sale, and they mostly get terrible reviews. Usually prebuilts use drives that the manufacturer can't sell any longer. Using Ghost 9.0 I can swap this bootable drive into my PC if I lose a disk. FWIW and a 5 out of 5 stars from me.
 
Managed to find this little gem, now to make some power brackets and I'm set!

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