I just picked up a lay-flat USB3 SATA docking station from Plugable Tech. Works like a champ in my cabinet configuration. See …
Lay-flat SATA toaster
This let me move my in-system SATA front-load slot over to the other system for whole-disk backups of the Windows system, and to play with other OS loads in a less impactful way. I like it a lot, and it works just fine.
