From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Sure.  Our Dell 8 way server has a 2 U rackmount Raid Array in it, takes
the HD's vertically. (on edge).  These are in SCA carriers, so they are
truly hot pluggable.


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Glenn M.


"Geo."  wrote in message news:404b5727{at}w3.nls.net...
> Go external on rack mount servers?
>
> Geo.
>
> "Tony Ingenoso"  wrote in message
> news:404affa8{at}w3.nls.net...
> > Case?   Go external.  I've done that with a bunch.  Lots of
wide-to-narrow
> cables around.   An old PS/2 Model 95 case makes for a
> > dandy and classy drive enclosure with excellent cooling.  A bit of
Sawzall
> mod to the drive support rack allows for 3 of these to
> > slip right in, and the 400W PS is more than enough.  Paint the case dark
> grey or jet black and it looks WAY COOL.  The M/95 power
> > supply is probably one of the most bullet proof units ever built.  When
> all the other machines are rebooting on a glitch power hit,
> > the M/95's keep running.
> >
> > I've grown tired of opening up boxes for drive changes and have started
to
> convert all my mission critical machines to all external
> > drives.  When you've got a big wad of these being spun up in order by a
> raid controller you know a REAL computer is about to boot
> > Each one takes about 5-7 sec and sounds like a jet turbine spinning up.
> >
> > "Geo."  wrote in message
news:404a8041$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > too big, they won't fit in the case.  Besides, these are those funky
> > > centronics like scsi plugs on this machine (sca?)
> > >
> > > Geo.
> >
> >
>
>

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