Looking for specific internal backplane

[_hunter]

Greetings,

I'm looking for very (as I understand now) specific SATA/SAS internal backplane: it should take 4 x 3.5" HDD, fit into 3 x 5.25", and more important -- it should have SFF-8087 mini-SAS connector. If there would be SATA molex (instead of old-one PATA) -- it would be just great.
So far I've found only one item: RaidAge / iStarUSA jAGE34R40MS (AKA NetStor NS160S). But it's marked as EOL, thus it very hard to buy...
And I hope that someone knows similar (newer) backplane, which could be bought freely...

Best regards...

 

[ekological]

Did you ever find anything?

 

[mwroobel]

How about something like this? which seems to be in stock here.

 

[eugenius]

Interesting hdd cage but it's missing the main thing. The error led. You're supposed to trigger an error led when you have a bad hdd, to know what hdd to take out. Otherwise, you might as well use no cage at all.

 

[drescherjm]

I do not have any cages with error leds yet I find the cages very useful for my arrays at work. To find a drive if I can not get it to read or write (activating the access led) I have a script that pings every disk and use a process of elimination to find the bad disk. This works fine in servers with 20 drives in 4 5in3s.

Edit: I guess if you had HW raid that did not allow access to individual drives this method would be impossible. I do not use HW raid on my linux servers at work.