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Review on πŸ”’ StarTech.com Trayless Hot Swap Mobile Rack for 3.5in Hard Drive - Internal SATA Backplane Enclosure - Lockable Drive Bay - 5.25in - Black (HSB100SATBK) by Ken Booker

Revainrating 4 out of 5

It gave me the opportunity to get the best of both worlds and keep learning.

I am using this drive in combination with the StarTech.com 2.5" to 3.5" Aluminum SSD/HDD Hard Drive Adapter (25SAT35HDD). I installed it in the top 5.25" bay. I have a DVD-ROM underneath to support it. I can swap out any 2.5" laptop or 3.5" desktop hard drive. In In my BIOS configuration I have set SATA0 as the first boot device it is connected to.This combination allows me to use many flavors of Linux and Windows without having to dual boot and partition my hard drives.For example, if I use the yum and rpm commands of a Red Hat Linux distribution (Red Hat, Centos, etc.) I can do that. If I want to play with Ubuntu, I can. I have revived old hard drives. I have a minimal Centos installation, one Centos server with GUI, one with GNOME and of course a Windows 7 hard drive to play in. For $40 for both products I got the best of both worlds and kept learning.

Pros
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