This hot-swap bay for 3.5 “SATA hard drives allows you to install a 3.5” SATA drive in an available / unused 5.25 “drive bay. Simply open the drive to remove the drive. the front panel door, and to reinsert a drive, simply insert the drive (connector first) until the door closes.
The hot-swap bay is a trayless design that makes it an ideal solution for quickly and easily removing and inserting drives as part of the system build process, or as integration into rack-mount systems or industrial environments.
For maximum performance and harnessing the full high-speed potential of SATA III hard drives, this HDD backplane supports SATA III for transfer speeds of up to 6 Gbps when paired with a compatible controller.
Also perfect as a complement to (image-based) operating system deployment and any task that requires fast, on-the-go access to large volumes of data, this hot-swap bay offers everything you need to speed up important projects. , while providing a reliable storage solution.
Supporting SATA HDD speeds up to 6.0 Gbps, the mobile rack / backplane fully supports RAID installations, ensuring maximum performance and versatility for enhanced storage applications.
Designed to provide a long-lasting and reliable operating experience, the mobile shelf has an insertion rate of 50,000+ and is backed by a StarTech.com two-year warranty.
Applications
Add hot-swap bays to a server or workstation
Allows you to replace or upgrade an old IDE backplane with a SATA backplane
Ideal for system builders who need to copy disks simultaneously and quickly.