> Hot swappable caddies. We use some nice metal ones (metal transfers heat
> better) with individual fans for each caddy. The drives stay cool, the ID
> can be set from the receiver instead of the caddie, so that customers can
> change out a failed drive and they don't have to find their "7 level" screw
> driver. These remove the drive from the SCSI buss gracefully.
we're looking into some hardware from Datastor just like this. anyone
have any experience w/ Datastor chassis and hotswap caddies? their
stuff is very reasonably priced and the tech i talked to seemed to know
what he was talking about. you can find it at http://www.dstor.com/.
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stephen waters
amicus, inc.
