On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Robin Bowes <robin-li...@robinbowes.com>wrote:
> 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 > We usually buy caddies from http://discountechnology.com/Products/SCSI-Hard-Drive-Caddies-Trays
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