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Better Cages for IDE Drives?

Posted by Cliff on Sunday September 9, 2001 @05:27AM from the more-drives-in-your-bays dept.

Bamfarooni asks: "No one uses 5.25" drives any more, but cases still come with a bazillion 5.25" bays. When you're trying to cram a couple of terabytes into a desktop server, cages like this and this let you reclaim some of that space. Unfortunately, all the really high density cages, like this one only come with SCA backplanes. Has anyone discovered a similar "5 drives in 3 bays" cage for IDE drives? Suppose there is a missed market opportunity here?"

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Do any of these work well with rails? by Anonymous Coward · 2001-09-09 07:04 · Score: 1, Interesting

As nice as those 5.25" rails are for sliding in and out CD drives, they make toys like that practically useless, not to mention plain ol' 3 1/2" mounting kits. Argggh...