darkbane

Hi I think you're right about vibrations.. I was concerned about them but now that you make me think about it, resonance could worsen the things. At this point then, if thinking about a tray design, the 2nd most important point is cooling... the Supermicro M34 has the sata ports lined at the bottom in line, so mounting a 12cm fan was easy.. the M35 has the sata slots parallel to each other, so space could be an issue.. if someone (whaler please?) has a M35 at hand... could you please use a ruler to measure the free space between the power and sata ports to check if a 12 cm fan would fit in there? (ie, not overlapping/covering the ports) Many thanks!

First of all let me say hello to everyone! I've found this thread looking for information on 5in3 cages and, after readyng EVERY post of it (and several other similar threads on limetech forums) I can say I'm quite enlighted I currently have a Supermicro CSE-M34T http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/mobilerack/CSE-M34T.cfm wich I modded to accept a 12cm fan.. and I'm very satisfied with it. Now I plan to upgrade from 4x2tb drives to 5x3tb, and so I was also planning to upgrade to a 5 drive cage. The obvious upgrade path would be the Supermicro CS35 wich has been plenty discussed here, but I'd like to go for a trayless design. The new istarusa BPN-DE350SS unit seems to be very nice: it is trayless, seems to be moddable to 12cm fan, and seems to be shorter than the supermicro one: http://www.istarusa.com/drivecages/bpndespec.php Has someone in the forum seen/tested the new design, as seen here? Thanks everyone! Aldo