February 18, 201016 yr I currently have 3 COOLER MASTER 4-in-3 cages in my CM 590 case. They offer good cooling, look decent, and you can't beat the price. On the other hand, they are hard to clean (I left the fronts on for better protection) and any maintenance requires taking the whole cage out. Also, my setup uses a NexStar HDD Dock for my nightly backup (connected via USB). Without going into too much detail, I like this for easy swapping with the offsite copy and during an emergency (fire, earthquake, whatever) I hope to be able to grab this drive and run (encrypted with whats really important). This is a good reason I haven't installed the nightly drive. One other problem I've found is if the HDD dock is on, unRaid won't boot (haven't found time to debug this - maybe use the esata port). I can S3/wake just fine). If I have a power failure and I'm not home, I can't even use WOL to get back to my server (FTP, streams music). I have been looking at other solutions (bored at work) like a backplane. I'm sorry for the long read. I'm asking for recommendations on a good 4-in-3 Backplane. The official ICY DOCK MB454SPF-B used in the Limetech server does look to be the best. It has a decent size fan (small = noisy) for cooling. I had a heat issue a while back until I taped up all the vents and added a rear fan. Plus, it looks decent. But the reviews (on newegg) are a little discerning with the product quality. Looking around the web, there doesn't seem to be a backplane that stands out. A close 2nd I'm looking at is the iStarUSA BPU-340SATA.
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