P/N of adapted 8x 2.5-inch drive bay for z8x0

[vhunjek]

Hello to all,

I have one question.

HP has adapted the main 3.5-inch drive bay to support eight 2.5-inch drives in the same space: 8x 2.5-inch drive bay.

What's the P/N and how does it work?

Have tried to chat with HP sales, but they are clueless.

Thanks in advance

[vhunjek]

Noone?

Here is another picture:

[vhunjek]

And this is first, this time not as attachement:

[David_Elrod]

I wonder where the quad adapters are, too, as one of the prime reason I upgraded my Z800 to an Z840 was the ability to add 2.5" drives internal.  It is ridiculous for a 2014 computer touted as being modular and modern to not have any way to add a 2.5" drive without purchasing and installing some type of adapter.  The same is also  true of having to add a Thunderbolt adapter to a workstation.

I also wonder how the HP quad adapter is going to work.  The 4 3.5'' bays on the Z840 are  connected to 4 of the 8 SATA ports of LSI controller.  If you add two of the adapters to your box, how do you get the 4 more SATA connectors from the LSI controller to your drives?   It doesn't look like it will be easy.  Also, how do the adapters remain swappable?

On my Z840, I used two Thermotake 4 2.5" drives adapters to add 8 2.5" drives to my system.  See attachment.  It worked, but was not elegant. 

[wvillers]

First time I hear about it!  Looks great!

The first question is how do you go from 4 to 8 SAS/SATA ports?  Does this have to be connected to 8 ports (I assume so) or is there some magic happening at the backplane level?  If it's backplane hadrware, then are we not splitting the bandwidth in two?

We use front-loaded Icydock 4x2.5" in our Z4xx/Z8xx machines, an 8x solution would be interesting...