Upgrading the 800D to a SATA3 Backplane
By Mike Clements posted Mar 08th 2011
Obsidian Series 800D case owners can upgrade the SATA 3Gb/s backplane on their hot swap bay to a SATA 6Gb/s compliant backplane using a kit now avaialble on Corsair.com. The kit includes the new SATA 6Gb/s back plane, a power cable, and mounting screws.
800D SATA 6Gb/s Backplane
Swapping out the old units ones for the new 6Gb/s backplane is simple and requires only one #2 Phillips or cross head screw driver. A short handled screw driver is useful if you wish to avoid removing your graphics card.
Remove the Power and Data Cables
The 3Gb/s backplane actually consists of 4 individual backplanes, each held on by 4 screws. Begin by removing the data cables and the power cables from each. Also, be sure to remove any drives that are installed in the hot swap drive bays.
Remove 4 Screws
Remove the 4 screws from each backplane segment
Attach the New Backplane
Place the new single backplane over the screw mounts and attach it using 8 screws.
Newly Mounted Obsidian Series 800D SATA 6Gb/s Backplane
Reattach the data cables and the single power cable. Your installation is complete and your 800D case can now support SATA 6Gb/s drives using the hot swap bays. The new backplane is also backwards compliant with SATA and SATA 3Gb/s drives.
Pascal Aeschbach
posted on Mar 08th 2011How goes the power saving with only one power connector ? All drives will stay powered when the first drive work, that not a very handy solution, but if you dont want to change your case to use 6Gb SATA that could be a temporary tweak.. Maybe an other version of this upgrade will be made further ?
David Naden
posted on Mar 08th 2011This is an excellent solution...one power cable/connection for all drives. With the old 3Gb setup, there were either four power cables, or a single with four connectors. In short, less cables is more! David S. Naden
Dimitar Asenov
posted on Mar 08th 2011The upgrade kit does not contain any SATA cables, just a power cable. Are the cables that come with the original backplate compatible with 6Gb SATA or should I buy new ones?
Robert Hollis
posted on Mar 08th 2011So I have my new 800d case. Looks like the upgrade is already there. But the picture you have above and the picture on the webpage do not look like the same unit. This makes it somewhat confusing. Also the USB 3.0 upgrade. I think it is already on my case but I have no reference to what the 3.0 looks like so how can I be sure? Great case BTW. :)
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