SATA 3x5 Drive Cages?

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I'm currently looking for 3 3x5 sata drive cages. I'm thinking of going with the http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16817995001 brand one.

However, none of the 3x5 cages I've been looking at have slots for cases with drive rails in them.

The iStarUSA http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817121913 one does, but its 3x4. I have this one working currently and its working fine. But I'm wanting to move to 16 drives total to use up both of my Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 8 port cards.

I'm wanting to put 3 of them into a http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16811133154 which I already have.

Does anyone know of a 3x5 that has the notches in them for the rails? I'm really not wanting to mod 10 bays of this case to get rid of the rails.

Thanks
 
There's not enough room for notches. Drives are about 1" tall these days (there used to be 1.6" ones, but those are obsolete), 5 1/4 bays are 5 3/4 inches wide (the name refers to the size of the media that goes in them) and the rails are probably at least 3/8". That doesn't leave any clearance at all. So, in short, I think the best you're likely to get is 4 in 3.

Either suck it up and buy a new case or go buy a gross of Dremel disks :p
 
Can't the tabs just be bent flat, take a hammer and something hard and flat (like they use in autobody work) and hammer them down flat. At least this way it would be alot easier to bend them back out if you ever need them later.
 
Diablo2K said:
Can't the tabs just be bent flat, take a hammer and something hard and flat (like they use in autobody work) and hammer them down flat. At least this way it would be alot easier to bend them back out if you ever need them later.
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This is what I did in Plutonium 1.5.... Then you can bend them back with ease if and when needed.....
 
unhappy_mage said:
There's not enough room for notches. Drives are about 1" tall these days (there used to be 1.6" ones, but those are obsolete), 5 1/4 bays are 5 3/4 inches wide (the name refers to the size of the media that goes in them) and the rails are probably at least 3/8". That doesn't leave any clearance at all. So, in short, I think the best you're likely to get is 4 in 3.

Either suck it up and buy a new case or go buy a gross of Dremel disks :p
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Mage look at this http://www.directron.com/bpu350sata.html 5 in 3 baby!
 
Ockie said:
I strongly disagree.


OP: you can use the 3 in 2's http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817119403

The 3x2's looks very nice as you have a vertical setup, your drive count loss isn't as bad as a 4x3.
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I got 1 of the Athena 3 in 2's for my Lian Li A05... works great, Fan isn't super quiet but I think it'd be easy to replace, just an 80mm...

And in the A05 itself, those drives run about 7-8c hotter than the 3 drives below them. Which is roughly 40c vs. 33c ... I'm not overly worried...

You can even buy extra drive-trays seperate at about $12 a piece... then just swap out HDD's...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817123307

They do seem to take a while to be detected by XP when popping them in and out though... took about a minute before XP was like "oh hay you gots a new HDD!!1" after I turned one off and back on... then again I could be doing something wrong cause I didn't really read anything, I just plugged in SATA cables and pressed power buttons :D

But for $65 I'm pretty happy...
 
I just bought Galaxy 4.5 (see my worklog entitled, Project: Plutonium 3) and I have 6 Athena 5>3 bay back planes in that case; I am pretty pleased with how they work, look, and the options.... I only thing I think should be changed is the cutout temp, which goes 55c-60c-65c, I have 2 Icy Dock back planes and they are 45c-55c-65c and I think that is much better... Also the Athena has power switches on the front for each drive, which is great, and when all drives are set to off, it turns off the back plane fan, really cool feature I think.....
 
I just got a supermicro for christmas, and I'm happy with it to the point that maybe you should consider getting a new case?

Or plan out how many hard drives you are going to actually be using and work from there, you might not actually need 5in3 but want it "just because"
 
Fryguy8 said:
I just got a supermicro for christmas, and I'm happy with it to the point that maybe you should consider getting a new case?
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I ended up doing the same thing. Started with a single Supermicro 5-in-3, then bought a Supermicro case with another 5-in-3. Supermicro's definitely got the build quality down pat.
 
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