I moved my home server, as part of an OS upgrade, from a Frankenserver case to a new HP proliant m110 G7 with 4 internal drive slots. I had 7 drves in my existing server case, that used an internal cage to held 3 additional internal drives. The internal cage would not fit inside the new HP case. (I could have bored a single hole in base of that case and mounted just as this one is to the exterior of the HP case.)
This cage has foam pads under its base. It firmly attaches to the top of the HP case with a single screw through the center of the cage's base plate. Once mounted, it is stable and firmly in place. The drive mounting screws slide into cage rails and are held in place by a mechanical locking pin.
The cage came with a standard plug for attaching an auxillary computer power supply. I decided to remove that in favor of running a power cord from the HP's power unit within the case. I also bought a 1M SAS to 4 SATA cable to connect 4 drives within the case to my RAID card. I used the cage's 5th drive slot for a SATA drive, that is connected to a motherboard SATA port, for C: drive backups. I also added a 120mm fan screen to keep things out of the fan.
All in all, this unit fit my needs to a "T."
I might add side panels to dress it up some when time permits.
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Neat but cheap plastic- still recommended
I dusted off a Dell T20 that I had sitting in my garage. It had Windows Server 2012 on it. I played around turning it into a NAS. Found this HDD rack and wanted to RAID 5 over 8 drives. I cut out the OEM HDD two bay that was there, trimmed the metal on the bottom of the SAN's 5 bay rack and slid right in. I removed the fan from the HDD rack as it wouldn't fit. I also think that the included power/fan controller is MEH at best. Am adding a 8 port PCIe sata card and power supply. I am playing with all of the drives I could find. (BTW a 2005 250gig WD Black drive with 60,000 hours still works- with no errors on drive.) As for construction- the metal cage part is great. The clips are good- IF you handle them like glass. The clips that hold the drives in pulls out to the side about 1//8 of an inch BUT getting them to pull out for the first time was a tight fit and required nervous pulling. Other than the clips and junk fan controller, this Rack is good enough for me and cheaper that having to find a new case for the drives. Recommended- could be made a little better, but not by much.
