Trouble finding HotSwap boards that attach to motherboards

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Hey Everyone,

I’m working on building out a workstation PC and the case I have, has a hotswap bay. What I’m looking for is basically a backplane to put on the drive bay so that I can make use of the drive bay.

Some background, I’m attempting to put modern PC components into a Sun Ultra 45 workstation case. This is going to be pretty interesting to accomplish. Thus, the drive bay has 4 slots and I have 2 sleds for the HDDs/SSDs. The original has a backplane that attaches to the motherboard via a cable. I’d like to replicate this with and it seems like single use backplanes would be the ideal fit, as I doubt I’ll find a PCB that fits this perfectly.

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Maybe try an actual hotswap bay, disassemble it and then use the PCB from it in your case, that would seem like the best bet

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Hey Gabe, thanks for the advice.

I am hoping to find single backplanes that I can just drill holes and align with the slots that are there. They’re pretty awesome slots, so if I can make use of them then I really want to.

Thanks again and if you come across single sata/sas backplane PCB let me know.

Cheers,
-Jeb

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