The trays are also designed to accommodate 7mm to 9.5mm height hard drive and SSD, creating a 2.5" hot swap bay for any standard SATA hard drives and SSDs.

http://www.icydock.com/goods.php?id=151

I don't know, I hope do discover it soon (anyway the hdd I've selected are 9mm)

I don't see the need for 4 or 6 or whatever number of hotswap drive bays for enthusiasts? I would be much happier if something like this came out for 2.5" drives but taking up 2 cd bays, allowing 8-12 hdd's in total, either 8x 15mm or 12x 9.5mm Hot swap is not really necessary, but it makes everyth...

JJ wrote:What features are those, apart from using mini-SAS connectors?

all need Port multiplier support

I have to admit that Icy dock one seems to attract me more that the one I was looking for at the beginning. I don't trust that review regarding the level of the noise, but on reviews of other products I read completely different comments like this one http://goo.gl/TLmF5 so it was a nice starting po...

It looks really promising! from the website Next, I set the fan on high to see if I could notice any increased fan noise. I could barely hear any increase in noise produced by the fan on the high setting and unless you have a computer sitting right next to ear, I doubt you would hear anything substa...

I'm moving away from 3.5 cause silent drives in that size are difficult to find on retailers in my country.
2.5 drives produce less heat and much less noise.
I was hoping to find a good backplane for 2.5 cause now these are becoming common into enterprise servers.
Thank You
K.

Hi All I'm new of this forum but I follow this site since a lot of time and I found it a really helpful resource. At home I have a silent server that I want to replace with a new one. I was planning to use 1g 2.5 hdds for storage using a backplane. The mb i'm planning to use is the asus p8c ws with ...