4-Drive "Standalone" Backplane DB9-only

This is a new product offering, with a completely unprecedented price and ease of use for its class.

This store item is a 4-drive backplane, designed for use with 1" high drives, and fits into the space of three CD-ROM drives. The backplane exposes a DB9 connector which is ideally suited for connecting to a copper PCI card with the appropriate cabling. Also present on this backplane is a green LED for each drive which indicates drive activity and a single amber LED which indicates a warning/fault.

Most mid-tower ATX cases have four CD-ROM drive bays and one installed CD-ROM drive, but if that won't work, then the "brick" of four drives will sometimes fit in the bottom-front of an ATX case.

This particular store item is for a mini-backplane that is pre-configured for use by itself. The drive ID's are already specified in the backplane, and the drives will spin up at power-on.

Now some general info on T-Cards:
This backplane is essentially four T-Card disk adapters combined to form a single unit, and converts the 40-pin SCA-2 connectors of Fibre Channel drives to allow a direct connection to a DB9 or HSSDC Fibre Channel interface, installed in a PC/Mac/workstation/etc., and also provides a power connector and jumpers for drive configuration.

Please note that all four positions must be populated with 1" disk drives or "dummy plugs" in order for the backplane to function properly. Installing less than four drives in the backplane prevents the loop from being completed.

Included with each backplane is a drive-mounting plate to support the attached disk drives.

These backplanes were designed and manufactured in the USA, and include a one-year warranty. Technical support is available by email.