On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:55 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Most of our servers have all drives in hot swap bays (and the older ones that don't are being surplussed as fast as we can)... *ALL* of which have sleds they have to fit in. The only drives I swap on a regular basis are our offline backups (of the online backups), and that's every two weeks, and for that I've got a dual bay eSATA base, just drop them in, then push it up.
If 750gb disks are big enough, you can get a cute little internal trayless hot swap bay for 2 - 2.5" SATA drives that fits in the space a 3.5" floppy would have taken. The WD ''Scorpio Black" drives are pretty snappy - and you can toss your backup in your shirt pocket. I think someone even has a 1 Tb drive in the standard laptop height now. Until recently there were 2.5" 1 and 1.5 Tb drives but they were too tall for standard enclosures.