For anyone filling one of those 24-bay chassis, I'm betting that at some point a 2.5" SSD is going to find its way into the machine. Not to worry. There is a cheap and reasonably fast option out there.
It is little secret that you pretty much cannot have a connector side edge to any converter or the 2.5" drive will not line up its connectors with the backplane. So you need a PCB converter.
The Icy Docks are only $14 on Amazon which is great. They are easy to use and nice for the money. But, with 24 that's $336 in just converters for a big case like that.
The solution is the HP microserver converters. Commonly these can be bought from ebay for $7 or so but are shipped from China. My experience has been 12 business days with a 2 day variance. Long enough that I forgot I had ordered them at some point.
I found an ebay seller out of New York: Brand New HP 2 5" to 3 5" SATA SSD HDD Adapter 4 Microserver Gen8 N54L N40L N36 | eBay and those make it in a few days. There is another auction he has with higher shipping and lower unit prices. Do not that one because you get ebay bucks for the item price not the shipping and they are basically the same cost.
While writing this I've found the converters on amazon too. $3 shipping each!!!!
It is little secret that you pretty much cannot have a connector side edge to any converter or the 2.5" drive will not line up its connectors with the backplane. So you need a PCB converter.
The Icy Docks are only $14 on Amazon which is great. They are easy to use and nice for the money. But, with 24 that's $336 in just converters for a big case like that.
The solution is the HP microserver converters. Commonly these can be bought from ebay for $7 or so but are shipped from China. My experience has been 12 business days with a 2 day variance. Long enough that I forgot I had ordered them at some point.
I found an ebay seller out of New York: Brand New HP 2 5" to 3 5" SATA SSD HDD Adapter 4 Microserver Gen8 N54L N40L N36 | eBay and those make it in a few days. There is another auction he has with higher shipping and lower unit prices. Do not that one because you get ebay bucks for the item price not the shipping and they are basically the same cost.
While writing this I've found the converters on amazon too. $3 shipping each!!!!