http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/ Engadget Comments for HDD Stage Rack evolves again: now holds twice the hard drives http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/Jun 6th 2008 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/Jun 6th 2008 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/Jun 6th 2008 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/Jun 6th 2008 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/Jun 6th 2008 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/Hopefully the next version would support RAID as well...
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But that would make one awesome hot-swappable drive stand.]]>Jun 6th 2008 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/Jun 6th 2008 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/
IDE might be phasing out, but I'd bet there are hundreds of thousands of perfectly good 20/40/60/80 GB IDE drives floating around in peoples' closets and desk drawers.

I don't see anything wrong with giving them an easy option to reuse those drives as needed instead of chucking them into a landfill.
]]>Jun 6th 2008 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/There's still an Azz load of IDE drives out there, ya know?]]>Jun 8th 2008 2:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/Jun 6th 2008 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/
After all, when you can just buy a cheap external USB drive case and just use the circuit board for a fraction of the price and about the same result... well...]]>Jun 6th 2008 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/Jun 6th 2008 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/
Only takes one.

Or two if you want a p-ata model as well.]]>Jun 6th 2008 7:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/Jun 6th 2008 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/Jun 6th 2008 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/
Get a quick IDE-SATA adapter and you can do older IDE drives also.]]>Jun 6th 2008 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/
I just pickup a tool-less 2.5" drive cage that supports eSata and you can install the drive in the cage in about 10 seconds. It came with a eSata cable, Sata to eSata backplate, and provides power off a USB connection. In addition the drive can be run entirely USB. The price $14. So I could get a oh 7 of these for the price of one of these over priced pieces of plastic that looks like a HD toaster. A 3.5 cage wouldn't be all that much more, but would require an external power supply or power pass through off an internal molex connector throught the backplate. ]]>Jun 6th 2008 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/Jun 6th 2008 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/]]>Jun 6th 2008 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/
Throw in $47 shipping costs and you're officially looking at highway robbery ]]>Jun 6th 2008 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/Jun 6th 2008 11:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/Jun 6th 2008 5:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/And a few months after that they will come out with a new 3 drive model without a card reader of course. Wow, those are some innovative sob's they got working there.]]>Jun 6th 2008 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/Jun 6th 2008 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/
VANTEC NexStar NST-D100SU Plastic 2.5" or 3.5" USB 2.0 & eSATA Hard Drive Dock

It may not be as cool as two slots in one block, but it is cheaper and flexible.]]>Jun 6th 2008 7:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/Now I need one.

Time to create a business case.]]>Jun 6th 2008 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/Jun 6th 2008 1:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/Jun 6th 2008 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/Jun 6th 2008 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/Jun 8th 2008 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/hdd-stage-rack-evolves-again-now-holds-twice-the-hard-drives/Jun 26th 2008 2:07AM