Re: OT - disk bays

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Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 2/3/2011 1:52 PM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
<snip>
>> Trayless is nice. All the sleds mostly use *different* screws. The ones
>> that drive me crazy are the Penguin boxes we have, that use screws no
>> one else uses... *and* we have a good number that came with only one or
two
>> drives (for use in clusters)....
>
> It has been a while since I used Penguins, but as I recall they used to
> ship a bag of those screws with every unit, so if you don't have them it
> may be because you threw them out.   And they put working carriers in

Don't look at me, they've were here when I started. And the other admin I
work with claims they came without. I dunno, maybe the guy I replaced, or
the one he replaced....

> the bays. The ones that irritate me are the IBMs and Dells that ship
> dummy carriers that take just as much material in the empty bays and
> charge a bundle for working ones if you add drives later.

Oh, that silliness. What I dislike are the PERC 700s, that will *only*
accept Dell drives, not commodity ones.

        mark

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