[SunRescue] What are these drives built for?

[James Lockwood]

On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Bill Bradford wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 08:37:31AM -0700, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > Well, the detail suggests that these are external cases for SCA drives.  The
> > box looks to me like something that one would put in an Ultra Enterprise
> > class server.  Might be worth calling and asking if it has a Sun part number
> > 	Greg
> 
> I bought one recently.  The case goes in an external Sun drive array (I saw
> one on ebay a couple weeks ago that had a picture and the drive cases were
> the same, but I lost the auction).  Good drives; I've got one in this
> U10 with a 50-pin adapter.

If those are indeed canisters for RSM214 arrays and others, they are worth
quite a bit by themselves.

Note that you can get empty RSM214's for around $200 easily.  Nice
chassis.

-James