Tex 0 Report post Posted November 10, 2009 These are some of the best backplanes I have used. They were rated at u160 but I have used nothing but u320 drives in these and have had zero problems even with every bay full with u320 drives running raid 0 arrays. I was using them a couple years ago to evaluate Per4 raid controllers on a dual cpu motherboard in a huge Intel server chassis. The huge Intel chassis is available but it weighes so much shipping would be HUGE and I have nothing to box it in or yu could have that monster free with teh backplanes honestly. I sold the motherboard and raid controllers long ago and these backplanes have just been sitting inside in the Intel chassis now for 18 months. I have no scsi card (just a laptop) at the moment so I have no way to test the drives again but they had working raid arrays installed on them when powered down and I would bet the drives are all fine. The back planes each hold 5 drives. So this sale is two hot swap 5 drive back planes loaded with Four maxtor 15k 18gb u320 Two IBM 36g Ultrastar u320 drives one atlas 10k IV u320 36gb drives Two back planes and 7 drives. I am selling the whole mess for the price of the backplanes basicaly. With 7 drives these are pretty heavy. I will inquire today on the size of USPS priority mail set price boxes and I will ship for actual shipping costs. No markup guaranteed on shipping costs. I want $150 for everything. Add on actual shipping using USPS priority mail. Contact me at tex.withers@verizon.net as I don't log on here often anymore. I used to post and sell on this forum often and specialized in high end raid controllers and scsi drives. I am sure my old posts are out on the forums still. I could not figure out how to upload images like I used to but if you email me I can give model numbers for all the drives as well as pics of the drives and backplanes. Thanks for looking Tex Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tex 0 Report post Posted November 13, 2009 OK I had not priced this stuff in a long time and the price I had in mind is way to high. How about $60 total plus actual shipping. The drives and hot swap bays weigh 21 pounds bare and not boxed. I will ship it however you want and you pay actual shipping only plus 60 bucks. Let me know Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
