That's amazing.

Another question: On the machine I was referring to there is not an eject button. Do you just push on it and it pops out or are you stuck with it for all eternity. A silly question if you already know the answer, I admit. Well, you know me. I am trying to imagine what kind of spring loaded gizmo you would need in order to pull out a sata connector. Must be some kind of modified connector.

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Oh yes, my common sense tells me that you don't push it all the way in. Then you have to pull hard to get it out. Then the question becomes how long does this connector last. 1,000 pushs and pulls?

It works the same way as an external USB hard drive. In that you tell the OS to "eject" so it spins the drive down. Then you would just yank it out like you would a USB cable. It should not require much force to insert or remove the drive & I expect it would probably not be as robust as a USB port, but should last quite some time.

Or again, you could use something like this: -



By pressing the small button, the spring loaded latch shoots open & pulls the drive out just enough to be able to remove it without any issues.

Edit:

For those using SSD's, are they the same size as a notebook drive with the connections the same?

Or again, you could use something like this: -

[IMG ]http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff93/pjd56/ALIM0551_zps232b621e.jpg[/IMG]

By pressing the small button, the spring loaded latch shoots open & pulls the drive out just enough to be able to remove it without any issues.

Edit:

For those using SSD's, are they the same size as a notebook drive with the connections the same?

The SATA connector is common across all SATA drives from 5.25" to 2.5". The 1.8" & smaller drives have a smaller micro connector. The SATA connector is also compatible with SAS. So you can use a SATA drive with a SAS controller, but you can not use a SAS drive with a SATA controller.

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