On 06/02/10 21:45, Steve Thompson wrote: > On Sat, 6 Feb 2010, Dameon Wagner wrote: > >> I've only been lurking on the list for a week or so, but after recent >> experience buying some dell servers, and almost a MD1000 (backed out >> of that because of the drive/hot-swap-tray availability issue) I'm >> still damn annoyed, and irritated enough to chip in my 2c... > > I have found that the caddies for 3.5" drives in MD1000/PE2900 etc are in > fact widely available, albeit not from Dell. I just bought quite a few, > with screws, for $24 each (I'm in upstate NY). I did call Dell and they > said that they _could_ sell me one, but only _one_.
Now, that's interesting. I'm looking to buy some storage shortly. I have a quote for an MD1200 with 12 of 2TB NLSAS drives. I'm guessing it would be quite a bit cheaper to just get the MD1220 and source the drives and caddies elsewhere. Where did you see the caddies available? R. _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
