Hello Tommy Anything is possible, but going from cabled to backplane on the T320 would not be supported or simple.   You would need more than a backplane. You would also need different cables, and you would need some parts we do not sell. Depending on which controller you currently have you may also need a different controller if you wanted to use more than 4 of the slots on the backplane since the chipset controller only supports a maximum of 4 HDDs. The cabled and backplane configurations use different chassis. We do not sell the chassis. You would have to modify your current chassis to create drive bays for the HDDs. The enclosure that the cabled drives use could not be used for hot plug drives. Thanks
Hi, I'm new to this forum, and have searched for this subject but couldn't find anything. I hope this is not a duplicate. Well, I just bought a PowerEdge T320 with cabled drives, and was wondering if it is possible to upgrade it to hot-swap later? Would I just install a backplane? What parts would I need? Regards, Tommy
Upgrade PowerEdge T320 cabled drives to hot-swap