RE-SUMMARY: Hard drive brack for V100

I've received a number of follow-up requests. I found only one vendor who
had the right brackets in stock: Computer Connection of Central New York.

Sales rep: Charles V. Carlson <cvc@ccny.com>

However, we're going with the do-it-yourself approach: I bought the
required cobalt drill bit yesterday, and modifying the filler brackets is
amazingly easy. Being cheap bastards, we won't pay the (although small)
premium of buying real brackets.

Howto: http://jwm3.com/labs/netra/

--
Christophe Dupre
System Administrator, Scientific Computation Research Center
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY        USA
Phone: (518) 276-2578  -  Fax: (518) 276-4886

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 15:17:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Christophe Dupre <duprec@scorec.rpi.edu>
To: "sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org" <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org>
Subject: SUMMARY:  Hard drive brack for V100

Thanks to:
Hichael Morton
Randy Romero
Andreas Hoeschler
Brian Leveille
Timothy Lorenc
Harrington, David
Luc I. Suryo
Gerald Combs
Jay Lessert
Matt Harris

I got tons of pointers to the Netra X1 3rd party disk instructions at
http://jwm3.com/labs/netra/ which is a do-it-yourself guide at modifying
the provided filler bracket.

I also got pointers to a fwe sites that might have the bracket part#, but
I couldn't find it.

Finally, I got the numbers of two 3rd party vendors that might stock
them, from which I'm waiting for a call back.

I'd rather buy them (for a fair price) than doing it myself (laziness),
but I'll do it in last resort.



On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Christophe Dupre wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> we just bought six V100 from Sun to be used as infrastructure servers (you
> know, DNS, LDAP, syslog, etc). We expected to be able to put 3rd party
> drives and memory in them as Sun's is really ovepriced : $250 list
> ($200 discounted) for a 40GB hard drive, and nothing bigger available. I
> can get a 80GB Seagate at the campus store for $120. Except that the 3rd
> party won't have the required bracket, and according to my Sun rep I can't
> get a disk bracket by itself.
>
> I don't know what is Sun's strategy here, but it's not increasing their
> market share. I already have increasing difficulty to justify a Sun
> machine, having to pay double for a stupid bracket will not help my case.
>
> So, is there anyone here who knows if that bracket has a part number, or
> of a 3rd party that sells such brackets ? As far as I can tell, the Netra
> X1 uses the same kind.
>
>
> --
> Christophe Dupre
> System Administrator, Scientific Computation Research Center
> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
> Troy, NY        USA
> Phone: (518) 276-2578  -  Fax: (518) 276-4886
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Christophe Dupre
System Administrator, Scientific Computation Research Center
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY        USA
Phone: (518) 276-2578  -  Fax: (518) 276-4886
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