May 14, 201016 yr Several of the rackmount chassis available have a space for a slim (laptop style) CD drive. However, unRAID doesn't support CD drives to my knowledge, so I got to thinking; perhaps you could put some USB ports, or a card reader, or something else in that space. Sadly, my Googling around came up dry. Is anyone aware of such a thing? Am I crazy?
May 14, 201016 yr Well, you can easily mount a 2.5" (laptop) hard drive or SSD in that space. That's probably the most common usage of it right now since no modification is needed.
May 15, 201016 yr Author That's a fair point for some chassis. I'm using the Norco 4220 though, so I've already got two 2.5" drive bays there. I poked around some more on the interwebs, but it seems there's just no market for something of that nature.
May 15, 201016 yr That's a fair point for some chassis. I'm using the Norco 4220 though, so I've already got two 2.5" drive bays there. I poked around some more on the interwebs, but it seems there's just no market for something of that nature. adonics has some devices that fit into slim bays. I know of a CF adapter and other card reader. I don't see a need other then removable media or a SSD. Actually I would put a slim dvd-rw in there. One day you may be able to write to it with cdrecord. At least that is a goal of mine. I just don't have the time right now to go down that path.
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