Caddy System for booting PC from different disks

[kirkster]

Hey guys,
Would like to rig up my system so that by inserting a disk into it in a caddy like system I can reboot the computer into something else.

My system (in sig) normally boots from a SSD M4 128Gig and works great. I want to install a caddy "home" type device and move this SSD to a "cassette" type system where I can just plug in the cassette containing the disk and the system will boot as the normal PC. But then on another day I want to be able to boot it with another disk in a second "cassette" as an ESXi server.

Does that make sense? Any hardware that can do this from OCuK?

Thanks, Steve

 

[bremen1874]

It makes some sense, and you can buy externally accessible drive bays that work either without drive caddies.

If it's ESXi you're interested in you just need a USB flash drive. Install ESXi to the flash drive and just plug it in when you want to boot it.