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Orico Unveils Internal Hot-Swap HDD Enclosures

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Got a few blank 5.25" drive bays that will otherwise never hold anything? Chinese company Orico, which specialises in small and medium business data storage solutions, has a few new enclosures for you. The company unveiled its latest 620xSS family of enclosures that fit into multiple (two or three) 5.25-inch drive bays, and provide 3.5-inch hot-swap ready drive bays. The hot-swap bays are key-locked to protect against accidental or unauthorised drive swaps.

Orico introduced an enclosure that converts two 5.25" bays to three hot-swap 3.5" ones, an enclosure that converts three 5.25" bays to four hot-swap 3.5" bays (vertical stacking), and an enclosure that converts three 5.25" bays to five hot-swap 3.5" bays (horizontal stacking). These enclosures are 'dumb', meaning they lack any local storage controller logic, or even port-multiplication logic. They rely entirely on the host for each drive's SATA connectivity. They just share the power connectors between drives. The enclosures, however, are ventilated by exhaust fans. Orico did not give out pricing or availability information.



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three 5.25" bays to four hot-swap 3.5" bays (<STRIKE>vertical</STRIKE> horizontal stacking), and an enclosure that converts three 5.25" bays to five hot-swap 3.5" bays (<STRIKE>horizontal </STRIKE> vertical stacking)
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Wrong.

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way to make myself look stupid there...
horizontal plane would mean vertical stacking and vertical plane horizontal stacking (i was tinkling on which plane the hard drives are on) :o
 
Stacking issues aside :D

Those 4 and 5 drives backplanes will be really noisy. 2 small fans (looks like 60mm) at the back instead one 120mm is totally stupid idea. One 120 fan offer far superior airflow and much, much lower noise.
 
Stacking issues aside :D

Those 4 and 5 drives backplanes will be really noisy. 2 small fans (looks like 60mm) at the back instead one 120mm is totally stupid idea. One 120 fan offer far superior airflow and much, much lower noise.

all you need to do is get a well-sealed chassis
 
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