[geeks] Impressive...

[Lionel Peterson]

On Mar 6, 2009, at 4:59 AM, Michael-John Turner <mj at mjturner.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 06:47:09PM -0500, Nate wrote:
>> Keep in mind that a lot of the SuperMicro hot swap bays are  
>> designed for
>> SuperMicro cases - that is, they have smooth sides, and can't cope  
>> with
>> cases that have the small metal tabs between 5.25" bays.
>>
>> So if you don't have a SuperMicro case, I recommend looking at the  
>> SATA
>> hot swap products from companies like Icy Dock (or just examine the
>> SuperMicro hot-swap device you're considering very carefully).
>
> This touched on a nerve with me. A few months ago I got a very good  
> deal on
> a Dell T105 with a quad core Opteron and bought an Icy Dock hot-swap  
> device
> to use with it (it allows me to install three 3.5" drives in the two  
> 5.25"
> bays). Annoyingly, the Dell had all sorts of metal tabs and bumps in  
> its
> drive bays, requiring me to spend a few hours with a Dremel doing some
> surgery on it to get the Icy Dock to fit.

If nothing else, the T105 has a bar between the 2 drive bays, so I  
never would have contemplated such an install...

> Can recommend Icy Dock products though - a little pricey, but the  
> one I
> have seems pretty solidly made.

I would have gone external eSATA cabinet myself, but my T105 has 2x  
1TB WD "green" HDs, so that's plenty local storage (for me, needs  
differ, of course).

Lionel