Subj : Re: Home Lab
To   : Moondog
From : Dennisk
Date : Wed May 20 2020 09:10:53

  Re: Re: Home Lab
  By: Moondog to Dennisk on Tue May 19 2020 12:40 pm

 >  > My 486 DX4/100 isn't much bigger.  Just big enough for two floppy drives
 >  > and two hard disks.  In some ways, compactness makes things a little
 >  > easier, ins ome ways, because you can have the IDE cable reach both the
 >  > master and slave drives.  One of my larger cases is more of a problem,
 >  > because the cable cann reach all the drives.  Obviously, longer cables
 >  > would help but I can only wo with what I have.
 >
 >  > I wonder if you could build the case so that the power and data
 >  > connectors w in the case itself, with sockets at the back of the drive
 >  > bay.  Just push th drives in.
 >
 >
 >  > ... Dennis Katsonis
 >
 > I'm sure it's possible to create a backplane with power and data on it,
 > however in order to make it compatible with most of the hardware out there
 > it may require proprietary cradles, similar to the removable drive caddys
 > present in the mid to late 1990's.  I noticed it more with floppies where
 > the power and date cables aren't consistently spaced.  Same with PATA hard
 > drives  and optical drive to some extent.  Modern servers are that way.  Hot
 > swappable
 >  drive bays are not a new thing.
 >

Perhaps.  If it was a given that a particular bay would take a particular sized
SATA hard drive, or a blueray drive, it could be done.  It is less flexible,
but would be neater.  At the back where the hard drive sits there is a place
with the power/data connectors, and the drives slide in.  At the other end of
the plate are sockets to connect it to the motherboard.  Kind of similar to a
networking patch panel.

It probably isn't that workable, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it done
sometime in the near future.

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