Cases with HDD cage same as armor/xaser?

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ballzac

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I have a thermaltake armor+mx, and my girlfriend has a xaser VI mx. It's great because we can safely and easily swap hard drives without risk of damaging the drives due to the nice tool-free enclosures that are the same on both cases.

I would like to set up a NAS box, and have most of the parts for it, but I'd like it to have the same style cage so that we can easily move drives into it with no messing around. I also don't want to fork out on a new armor, and would be happy with something in the price range of a V6. Do any of these cheaper models have this same drive cage? Alternatively, a drive cage that fits in a regular case would be great if one like this is available, as I already have a couple of old cases that I'd be happy to use for the NAS, but they have the usual metal cages that require the HDD to be screwed in.

Anyone have any ideas? Other suggestions would also be welcomed. :)

To avoid any confusion, this is what our cases have:

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I don't think the exact same cage would fit in a standard case, unless it fit's in the 5.25" bays? Something that accomodates these plastic drive-holders and fits in 5.25" bays, or a case that comes with these, is what I'm after. The iCage looks great for the price, but doesn't use these drive-holders. :(
 
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Well, that's kind of similar to the icage, except with the advantage of being able to move drives easily. It looks like I would still need to take the drives out of their holders and put them in that one though. The system looks similar though, and perhaps it would be worth my while getting several of that sort of thing and using it for every computer in our network, and not using the thermaltake ones.

Basically what I want is to be able to swap hard drives willy nilly with no hassle. I would also prefer (though it's not a dealbreaker) to not have to handle the drives directly at any stage as I've had drives die on me more than once when moving from case to case. Hence why I would have preferred something that uses the EXACT same system as the thermaltake armor.

Thanks for the links by the way :)
 
Just to be sure I'm being clear. The HDDs secure to the holder,
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and the holder slides in or out on the track
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So you could avoid touching the drive during the swap - If you're careful.

Would require a lot or retrofitting though.
 
I'm not sure I understand. How would I get the drives out of the thermaltake holder and into those ones without touching them? :S
 
Sorry, I was posting toward the, "Other suggestions would also be welcomed," section of the question. :)

I was suggesting retrofitting the Lian Li cages to your systems, though, no doubt, it would be costly.

Have you yet tried customer support at Thermaltake in attempt to purchase some like cages?
 
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