"Mayayana" wrote in message
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"Carlos E.R." wrote

| And the rest is done with trays that face you.
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| Cables at the back... :-P
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There used to be an Englishman in the programming
groups who liked to use caddies. I don't know quite how
they worked, but somehow he installed a chassis in
a drive bay and then had 3 1/2" enclosures for the
hard disks, that fit into the chassis. So when he wanted
to test software, rather than use a VM, he just pulled
out one hard disk and slid in another, with a different
OS on each disk. I picture it as something like an 8-track
player but I've never actually seen such hardware.

Personally I change hardware very rarely, so I don't
need any special convenience.


Yes, I also used caddies for a time. I still have an unused one in its box
which says MobileRack since 1994 so that might be the brand name.
They weren't hot swappable under XP.
Used with 3.5" IDE drives at the time but later 2.5" drives plus a SATA to
IDE adapter made them even more convenient & lighter.
The case also had a lock where the key was a tube with a protruding pin.
Enough to stop casual removal.

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wasbit