John, On Sunday, February 21, 2010 you wrote: > a bunch of vendors sell 5-in-3 sata hotswap adapters that hold 5 SATA > drives in 3 HH external bays of a jumbo tower chassis. they seem to run > about $100. each drive bay has its own sata port on the back of these. > example of one of these, > http://www.amazon.com/SUPERMICRO-Hot-Swap-Mobile-System-Cabinet/dp/B00009ILU0 You may consider using this part: http://www.coolermaster-usa.com/product.php?product_id=2814 The disadvantage is that you have no quick-swap-possibility, but the cooling is better as in hot-swap cases. The box has nice vibe-stoppers so that you have no vibrations on the case. I have several of these boxes and the disks run at least 10C cooler compared to a hot-swap system. And they sell for less than 25$. best regards --- Michael Schumacher