Subj : Re: Home Lab
To   : Dennisk
From : Moondog
Date : Wed May 20 2020 22:10:00

  Re: Re: Home Lab
  By: Dennisk to Moondog on Wed May 20 2020 09:10 am

 >   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 driv
 >  >  > 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 th
 >  >  > 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 ther
 >  > 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 har
 >  > drives  and optical drive to some extent.  Modern servers are that way.  
 >  > swappable
 >  >  drive bays are not a new thing.
 >  >
 > 
 > Perhaps.  If it was a given that a particular bay would take a particular si
 > 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 o
 > the plate are sockets to connect it to the motherboard.  Kind of similar to 
 > networking patch panel.
 > 
 > It probably isn't that workable, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it done
 > sometime in the near future.
 > 
Either a manufacturer would have to take a leap of faith and hope buyers
adopt his standard, or a group of manufacturers will have to agree on a
docking standard.

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