From: "Geo." 

Go external on rack mount servers?

Geo.

"Tony Ingenoso"  wrote in
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> 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
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> > 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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