Re: where to buy very very large cases

[Jim Ramsey <jwramsey@pobox.com>]

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Don't feel bad. I worked for West Publishing Company (they make
law books) from '75 - '77.  We had 3 strings (8 drives each) of IBM
3330's.  That's 24 x 200MB / drive === 4.8GB.  Today, you can
put that and more in your shirt packet.  Actually, you can put 2GB
on you keychain for about $500.

Sigh!!!



On Monday 28 July 2003 10:51, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 09:18:02AM -0400, mjstumpf wrote:
> > Are there other means of packing more drives into a small space -- IE,
> > has anyone actually fabricated a bracket that would take multiple
> > vertical 5.25" form factor spaces, and let you mount 3.5" drives sideways
> > [vertically] to pack 4 drives into the space of 3.. etc..
>
> Yep - the company I work for is a manufacturing company, and as such has
> a complete metal shop in the back.  We ripped out the guts of a full
> tower case and had one of the metalworkers put together a vertical
> bracket that allowed us to triple the amount of drives we could fit in
> the case.
>
> It originally had some ridiculous number of 5.25" drive bays.  After
> that bracketing was ripped out, and our custom bracket rivetted in, we
> ran 12 disks for a long damn time.
>
> Funny things happen over time though - our 120G array of IBM 16G
> deskstars was easily replaced by two disks, LOL.

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Regards,

Jim Ramsey

  There's that that's worth living for.
  There's that that's worth dying for.
  The rest is c**p.
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