RE: Rack Mount 4U - Lots of Drives?

["David Irwin" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark,
Drive array looks good - I will sound a note of caution - I had a server
which I used the plastic Mobile Rack hard disk caddies in, and at some
point
or other some of the fans stopped working in them.
Because there is no monitoring of these fans, they were really quiet
compared to the rest of the system, and the fact that they provide the ONLY
cooling to the hard disks withing the caddies I lost 4 hard disks in quick
succession and therefore pretty much all the data I had stored (except for
-
of course - my backed up data).
My advice is to check the fans within the caddies on a regular basis as
backing up 1.9TB of data is pretty much impossible!!

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Mark McCall
> Sent: 23 May 2005 08:54
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Rack Mount 4U - Lots of Drives?
>
> > Bit late (I know you've already ordered) but came across this
> > http://www.pcicase.co.uk/rackmount.ihtml?pid=93&step=4
>
> Thanks Andy, I've got my case and have it nearly finished.
> I've 2 more caddies/drives to fit which will bring it to 8
> drives - 1.9Tb
>
> http://www.larchview.com/photo/jukebox/jukebox1.jpg
> http://www.larchview.com/photo/jukebox/jukebox2.jpg
> http://www.larchview.com/photo/jukebox/jukebox3.jpg
> http://www.larchview.com/photo/jukebox/jukebox4.jpg
> http://www.larchview.com/photo/jukebox/jukebox5.jpg
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> M.
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