[rescue] It really sucks ....

[Phil Stracchino]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 02:57:26PM -0400, Andrew Weiss wrote:
> >>>It's a HP NetServer Storage System/6.  Without the HP-specific disk 
> >>>trays.
> >>>The trays sell for outrageous prices, and without them, an empty 
> >>>chassis
> >>>-- redundant power supplies and all -- seems to sell for about $5.
> >>>
> D3349B trays are used on almost all the Netservers.  Just buy a few old 
> drives (smallest were about 2GB for the hot swap trays).  You could 
> even buy broken disks on the cheap.  D3349B's are quite common, but I 
> can't find a price in Partsurfer for them so I'm not sure what we could 
> get them from HP for.  The non hot swap trays are $55 @ so I bet they 
> aren't worth it at HP prices.

D3349B sounds like the part number I found, yeah.  Last time I looked
they were around $100 each.  I'll admit it hadn't occurred to me to look
for HP *drives* still in their trays.  I'll give it a shot, if I can
find the right drive part numbers.  Thanks for the suggestion!

Partsurfer, huh?   I'll have to take a look at -- or for -- that ....


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