Good observation. It seems that I'm only keeping ahead of the folks in this forum by running as hard as I can.
I just bought the sheet aluminum for making my drive cages. I'm going for the drives-in-a-cage setup, but I'm also floating each drive on vinyl (and hence dissipative, not resonant) vibration dampers per drive. Stock item at McMaster-Carr. Lets each drive not only float from the chassis, but gets you both spring isolation and dissipative isolation from the supporting member. I'll see if I can take some pictures. A seven-drive cage version of an ATX case/corpse is donating itself for a drilling template for the drive mounting holes. This is complemented by my lucky purchase from craigslist of two 4U rackmount cases for $25. The cages in these are rubber mounted to the outer case, which will help further damp feed-in of air-borne vibration picked up from the large flat panels of the case. The vinyl dampers @ 4/drive will both help keep the individual drive's vibration in and the other drives' vibration out, while dissipating it as heat. R.G. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
