Rosewill RSV 4 x 3.5-Inch HDD Cage RASA-11001

Good product, excellent performance. I will be buying more.

Fit my case perfectly with easy enough cable access and sturdy feel. Running 4x 4TB drives with this using ZFS and it's worked like a charm! No issues recognizing drives or reading/writing data. Cables can be routed through the back of your case with the SATA connections being toward the rear of the case, so **REMEMBER TO PLUG IN SATA CABLES BEFORE INSTALLING** if you want to save yourself some tricky angling trying to plug them in after the cage is installed.

Fit like a glove in a Chenbro RM42300 4U server chassis. Other review complaints about the plastic drive trays are way off base. The trays are well made and (to me) they seem better that some of the comparable "enterprise grade" trays I've used from Tyan and Supermicro. If you're swapping drives often enough to break or wear these out, you need to get better drives or invest in an external eSATA drive dock. The other common complaints - molex power connectors and connector location - are really only relevant if you're putting this in a desktop. In a server chassis, connector placement is perfect. And the clunky old molex connectors are more mechanically secure than SATA power connectors. Overall, I think the quality is fantastic for the price. This has to be one of the best values in server components I've seen in a long time. I prefer the trays over trayless designs and the fact that they're designed to accommodate both 3.5" and 2.5" drives without an adapter shows good attention to design. Cooling is the other area where this unit excels. There is good provision for airflow (within the size constraints) and the 120mm fan runs at a sane (moderate) RPM for nice quiet operation while still moving plenty of air. I can definitely say these drive cages are going to become a standard feature in all my server builds.

This works and easily provides the space I needed to install four more drives. The fit was fairly tight in the first case I used this in (so much so I was concerned I wouldn't be able to remove it), but I was able to transfer it to a Rosewill Thor NAS when I upgraded with no issues whatsoever. One concern I did have was that only a month of use and I'm having issues with the status lights. The top one seems to have burnt out completely and the bottom one won't turn off or flicker. That being said, it has not affected the functions of this enclosure. My drives all work perfectly fine and my temps are very well under control. Aside from the failing LEDs, this has been a great drop in fix for my needs.

This is exactly what I was looking for. Sturdy and adds rigidity to the case. Fits with slight modifications but worth it.

For a PC case you buy on a consumer level it will probably fit. No offense to any cases/case manufactures but they add extra tolerances for cheap hardware like this. It does not meet the requirements for a 5.25" bay though. I've tried this in multiple high end workstations/servers now (poweredge/HP workstations/ect) and it will not fit in any of them. The metal cage itself is fine and does fit. The plastic extrusion on the front and the back absolutely will not. Where the plastic is attached to the metal with screws the plastic sticks out past the cage. The faceplate is just blatantly not even with the sides or close to the right size. If you can force it in past the back plate the front plate will never fit flush because it is not the correct size. The front is the correct size but it expands out to the point it's not able to fit. You might be able to get away with leaving it sticking out but the screws won't line up. If you're willing to put a little muscle into it (and have a case cheap enough to bend) you can get it flush. It's a real shame because it works just fine. It's just the cheap plastic they engineered wrong and couldn't spend a penny to fix that makes it garbage.

A very nice backplane. The fan is quiet and its well made. The ports are on the same side as the motherboard so it's best to connect the SATA and power cables before installing. my drives are staying under 40C during backups.

I've had this running for over nine months. This is an excellent piece of hardware to convert nearly any commodity PC case into a NAS. I see a lot of commercial offerings for home NAS systems and they typically seem to be overpriced for what they deliver. I always suggest to people to "roll" their own using a piece of hardware like this and LINUX. Of course not everyone is receptive to that option, which keeps companies like Synology in business. Update: Five years on and starting to have problems with the back plane. Bottom drive (HDD4) starting clicking and dropping off line, had bad sectors and was getting a bit old. Replaced it with another hard drive (called HDD5 in this case)... same issue. Put HDD5 in USB case to test, everything works fine. Replaced SATA cable from MOBO to back plane.. issue again. Bypassed back plane power+SATA to HDD5.. everything works fine. I would buy another one of these HDD Cages but may look for an alternative brand/solution before doing so. Just be prepared to add another factor into troubleshooting issues with this item. At least this thing didn't toast all four hard drives out of the box like what happened with another reviewer.

Works like a charm, not too noisy, easy install, I don't know how to use them, so I just pilled two of them one over the other. Still bomb!

I finally got tired of my 13 year old CoolerMaster Stacker's piss poor drive cage design, where I always have to spend half an hour to dismantle the whole sides and unplug the fans & cables from all the drives just to swap one out. Great case overall but the drive cage design was crappy. This Rosewill cage was actually put together pretty well, I chose this over other tool-less ones because this one can actually accept 2.5" SSD's without any adapters, as the trays have holes for 2.5" SSD/HDD. Another reaason was that this has a 120mm fan, most others have smaller, noisy fans. But I removed the included fan anyway, and reinstalled my 120mm ball bearing PWM fan which I connect to the motherboard to control its speed. I don't know how loud or quiet the Rosewill fan would have been, but I didnt want to experiment. The trays are plastic but if you aren't going to swap drives daily I think they will last if you're not rough with them. All in all, it works great, except I don't know why the drive 2 LED flashes continuously. Not sure why, nothing is being accessed on it.

Este Hot Swap Hard Disk Case, te permite poner 4 discos duros en 3 espacios de 5.25 (cdrom). Tienen sus leds de actividad y de prendido. Sus palancas permiten deslizar fácilmente los discos duros (Hot Swap) y solo necesitan 2 a 3 tornillos dependiendo del tipo de disco duro. Los conectores son SATA estándar. También tienen un ventilador estándar de 120mm en la parte inferior para mantener un flujo constante de aire. Se acopla muy bien al chasis de un Gabinete para servidor Rack ROSEWILL (misma marca) sin problemas.

Ich würde gern 5 Sterne geben, denn die Verarbeitung ist gut, es macht einen besseren Eindruck, als ich erwartet habe. Kein Schnickschnack. Ich hätte es gern behalten, nur leider haben die Hersteller nicht daran gedacht, dass in den Aussparungen der 5,25" Schächte kleine Kanten sind (dort, wo die Blenden eingesetzt werden). Dadurch passt das Teil nicht ganz bündig in die 5,25"-Schächte und die Tür meines Gehäuses kann nicht mehr geschlossen werden. Natürlich könnte ich die Kanten wegfeilen oder auch den Rahmen des HotSwaps bearbeiten, das ist aber nicht der Sinn der Sache. Der Rand bzw. Rahmen des HotSwaps ist 149,45mm breit, der meines zuvor verbauten DVD-Laufwerks nur 148,2mm. Sehr schade... Da ich weder das HotSwap noch mein Gehäuse bearbeiten möchte, geht das Teil zurück. Aber: getestet habe ich es, technisch funktioniert es super sowohl mit SATA alsauch mit SAS Platten und der Lüfter ist angenehm leise. Die Einschübe sind zwar komplett aus Kunststoff, scheinen aber recht stabil zu sein. Nur die Verriegelung würde bei wirklich grobem Umgang vermutlich als erstes wegbrechen. Das Gehäuse des Gerätes ist aus Metall und gut lackiert. Auch hier könnte man die Dimensionen um einen Millimeter in der Höhe und Breite verringern, damit es leichter einzubauen ist.

Ideal cage for keeping extra hard drives together and operational. Well built.