How do you fix this mess?

fish99

fish99

fish99

Soldato
Joined
19 May 2005
Posts
5,053
Location
Doncaster
See picture. That's what having five SSDs looks like when your case has no SSD mounting bays (that's an Antec 300 gen 1), but it's also indirectly because the SATA power connector was poorly designed and is typically quite loose, but SATA power leads are quite stiff, so it's hard to mount SSDs next to each other. If the leads are bent the connectors are prone to falling off.

Has anyone designed some sort of SSD cage to fix this?

Thanks :)

SSDmess.jpg
 
:D

I'm not opposed to picking up a new case if there's something for under £60 that's as good as the antec 300 and has lots of dedicated SSD storage. Any suggestions?
 
Cheers guys. Those cases do look nice.

I think there's a market there for someone to build an SSD cage that takes say 4 SSDs and powers them all off a single SATA power lead (IIRC they use about a fifth the power of a mechanical drive). Would cut down on a lot of mess and let people keep using their old cases.
 
Someone does need to think about how storage drives are powered nowadays. Running a separate power cable and data cable for something that draws a few watts is a mess especially when sata power cables from your PSU are always the wrong length and the wrong way round.
 
There's a bloke on one of the SG05 case forums that has custom wired 4 SSDs together with braided cables.

Looks awesome but a lot of work.
 
fish99 said:
Cheers guys. Those cases do look nice.

I think there's a market there for someone to build an SSD cage that takes say 4 SSDs and powers them all off a single SATA power lead (IIRC they use about a fifth the power of a mechanical drive). Would cut down on a lot of mess and let people keep using their old cases.
Click to expand...

Silverstone make a Sata power lead that has 4 connections to one sata power connection. As far as the cage is concerned - I am still looking for that too. Could always make your own cage out of aluminium, which is what I have done, but mine is deffo function over form though. Lol

Mark
 
Yep, five. As you've guessed 3 of them are running at 3gb/s, but they still feel snappy enough.

Sure if I had loads of cash I'd get fewer bigger SSDs. I've basically got 2*240GB drives for my Steam library, then a 120GB drive for Origin and one for UPlay, and then one for win7. At least with this setup I don't lose much if one fails :)
 
How about something like a 5.25 adapter / docking bay? might make it easier for access and also cable management.

aZTOnlTl.jpg
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom