Will normal 3.0gb sata drives work? Do drive trays come with empty system?

The drive uses a new snap-in tray. I hope all 4 bays come with the tray and that normal 3.5 inch drives will work. Otherwise Apple has locked us into a proprietary Apple-only hard drive purchase.
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I can't be 110% sure till my Mac Pro arrives, but I doubt very much you would be able to shoehorn in a PATA drive into the trays.
I would imagine that the hard drive trays and slots are using a SATA backplane design. This would allow for the drives to be put in the trays, then slipped into the drawers with no power or data cables needed. This of course means the connectors must line up correctly. Even if the trays had enough physical room for a PATA drive + adapter, it is high unlikely that the adapter will present the SATA power and data connectors in the correct location. In fact, all the adapters I have seen have the data connector oriented 90 degrees from how it should be, and I believe most adapters use the older molex pin style power connectors and not the SATA power connectors.
So my guess is No, it won't work... But thats not to say you can't find a place within the case to stick a PATA drive, maybe the second optical bay, if your not using it.
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