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What exactly is the difference between a normal hot-swap bay cage and a trayless hot-swap bay cage?

I know that a trayless hot-swap cage looks like this video. So what's the difference with a normal one?

Here is a price comparison I found on a hardware website (so trayless is $59 more expensive):

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Jean-Paul
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There is no technical difference. The trayless ones take up slightly less space but it's harder to get the drives in and out of it. The tray ones have a convenient handle for pulling the drive out of the enclosure. Also the tray models tend to have an activity light on each tray to indicate drive power and access. The trayless models usually have just one light that blinks for any drive in the enclosure (although that's not always true).

Wes Sayeed
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