On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 12:56:04PM -0500, Tim Cook wrote: > At that price, for the 5-in-3 at least, I'd go with supermicro. For $20 > more, you get what appears to be a far more solid enclosure.
My intent with that link was only to show an example, not make a recommendation. I'm glad others have the example I picked as the easiest search result, I don't. There are plenty of other choices. Note also, the supermicro ones are not trayless. The example was specifically of a trayless model. Supermicro may be good for permanent drives, but the trayless option is convenient for backup bays, where you have 2 or more sets of drives that rotate through the bays in the backup cycle. Getting extra trays can be irritating, and at least some trays make handling and storing the drives outside their slots rather cumbersome (odd corners and edges and stacking difficulties). Having bays that take bare drives is also great for recovering data from disks taken from other machines. Bare drives are also most easily interchangable between racks from different makers - say if a better trayless model became available between the purchase times of different machines. -- Dan.
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