StarTech.com Hard Drive Docking Station for 1 Drives

This removable hard drive hot-swap bay makes it easy to swap 3.5” SATA or SAS drives in and out of your server or desktop computer, using an available 5.25” front drive bay. It features a trayless design that saves you installation time and enables you to insert or remove drives as needed. With its durable plastic and aluminum construction, it provides a cost-effective solution for drive maintenance and interchangeability of data between multiple systems.

Hot-swap drives easily

This hot-swap bay/mobile rack is ideal for IT professionals, such as system administrators or computer operators, for quickly swapping drives.

With support for both SATA and SAS 3.5” drives, it saves valuable time in environments where storage drives need to be replaced or removed regularly, such as in server rooms and data centers. Its cost-effective design makes it ideal for large deployments of system builds or upgrades, and for organizations intent on maximizing their IT budget spend.

Valuable drive protection

The removable hard drive hot-swap bay provides a protective backplane with a lightweight yet durable plastic and aluminum housing. To safeguard your data, you can lock the drive bay door to prevent you from unintentionally disconnecting the drive.

Fast data transfers

To maximize the speed and performance of your drives, the mobile rack supports SAS I and II and SATA I, II and III, providing data transfer speeds up to 6Gbps when paired with a compatible controller.

The HSB13SATSASB is backed by a StarTech.com 2-year warranty and free lifetime technical support.

• Hot swap drives between systems, using a 3.5” SATA or SAS drive in a 5.25” front bay
• Durable plastic and aluminum construction
• Trayless design for ease of use
• Supports SAS I/II and SATA I/II/III
• Lockable, secure drive door
• Venting to optimize heat dissipation

• Provides a cost-effective solution for building or upgrading computer systems for organizations such as government agencies, small-to-medium businesses, educational institutions, medical facilities, and military organizations
• Provides easy hot-swapping of drives in environments where drives need to be replaced or removed regularly, such as server rooms and data centers
• Ideal for industrial or enterprise storage applications such as data backup, recovery, and archiving

• mobile rack
• keys
• backplane-mounting screws
• SATA/SAS data cable
• Molex to SATA and LED cable
• SATA to SATA and LED cable
• quick-start guide

Can I hot-swap SATA drives with this mobile rack?

Yes, this mobile rack does support hot-swapping of SATA drives. To use this feature, it is required that the SATA port is set to Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) mode and hot-swapping is enabled. On most motherboards, this is performed within the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) or the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). If you are using a SATA controller card, consult the motherboard manufacturer's technical documentation for the correct steps to accomplish this.