Les Mikesell wrote: > On 2/3/2011 1:52 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: <snip> >> Trayless is nice. All the sleds mostly use *different* screws. The ones >> that drive me crazy are the Penguin boxes we have, that use screws no >> one else uses... *and* we have a good number that came with only one or two >> drives (for use in clusters).... > > It has been a while since I used Penguins, but as I recall they used to > ship a bag of those screws with every unit, so if you don't have them it > may be because you threw them out. And they put working carriers in Don't look at me, they've were here when I started. And the other admin I work with claims they came without. I dunno, maybe the guy I replaced, or the one he replaced.... > the bays. The ones that irritate me are the IBMs and Dells that ship > dummy carriers that take just as much material in the empty bays and > charge a bundle for working ones if you add drives later. Oh, that silliness. What I dislike are the PERC 700s, that will *only* accept Dell drives, not commodity ones. mark