Hard Drive Racks: Compy says, "NOM NOM NOM"

I just got a few Kingwin KF-1000-BK 3.5" internal hot-swap racks for my computer.  They install in slots in the computer that normal people would install disk drives.  This lets me insert hard drives into the computer from the front, even while the computer is on.  First, some pictures…

Here are some unboxing pictures:

The loading mechanism is really neat.  Here’s a video showing how it works:
<video coming soon>

The connectors are a bit odd…  The rack itself requires power, but rather than pulling power from the regular SATA power connector (which probably has a more technical name), the drive comes with a funny splitter shown here:

The rack is constructed to absorb the vibrations created by the drive to reduce sound.  The result is that the sides flex without much force applied.  (Note: my Antec P180 case requires that I attach little things to the both sides of devices installed through the front.  I put one on for these picture.)

Here they are in my case… pretty!

Here you can see what looking into an open, empty tray look like:

Here is an empty tray, a partially-loaded tray, and a loaded tray:

In this picture the bottom two racks have drives in them, and the top drive is being written to:

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Hard Drives, Hardware, Kingwin, Rack, Storage
2 July 2008 comment TrackBack-URI