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Old 10-28-2009, 11:00 PM   #1
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Default Drive bay HDD docking station.

My father got a new HP desktop which has a very cool feature - a drive bay USB HDD docking station. The HDD pops in and out easily from the front of the case. Of course it is some proprietary HP drive but I was thinking they had to make something like this for a standard HDD. A quick scan through Newegg didn't turn one up. Anyone know anything about that?
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Old 10-28-2009, 11:16 PM   #2
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Default Drive bay HDD docking station.

Mobile Rack?
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Old 11-01-2009, 01:02 AM   #3
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Such things are beginning to appear. They used to be called Mobile Racks, but some cases now feature them. In most cases a caddy or inner tray is required to hold the SATA HDD. An example:

http://www.jr.com/antec/pe/ANT_EASYSATA/
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Old 11-02-2009, 08:22 PM   #4
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Yes! That is exactly what I was looking for. And cheap too. Thanks.
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