Bought a few days ago and today fitted one of the Startech expansion slot hard drive hot swap containers
https://www.startech.com/uk/HDD/Mobile-Racks/ … n-Slot~S25SLOTR
As you can see it's a tight fit. It's designed to grip on to an expansion slot, but I've actually put it on a slot beyond the motherboard, as my front bays are completely full of hard drives. Took ages faffing around, but seems to have been recognised first time.
I've stuck a 1TB Firecuda in it for scratch and bare metal operating system installs in my main system. Most of the rest of the drives are hanging off an SAS array, and getting Linux to boot from that without being upset is proving a little challenging.
It also uses a bloody molex for its power supply, so I had to search around for a molex extender. What I really also need is an SATA power to molex.
Yes, the graphics card at the bottom isn't on a PCI-e slot either, it's using one of the (expensive) ThermalTake premium PCI-e extenders so I can use all of my slots and try to fill the 80 PCI-e lanes two Xeons provide. It's a well made extender, and works fine, which it should do for the price..