Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 2/3/2011 12:38 PM, Chuck Munro wrote:
>>
>> Less than $500 for a Supermicro box? Holy crap, Batman!
>>
>> I'm using one of their motherboards (X8DAL-3) in a home-brew
>> configuration, which has turned out to be somewhat less expensive than a
>> factory-built Supermicro, but still not cheap. I'll say one thing for
<snip>>
> If you are building your own stuff, I kind of like trayless hot-swap
> sata bays. And if you care more about size and power than speed and
> capacity, you can get them for laptop size drives too.
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)....
mark