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I don't see much that's novel in the article, other than perhaps the rack dimensions. Corporate servers and workstations have been designed for easy, screwless
by hackuser 12y ago
I don't see much that's novel in the article, other than perhaps the rack dimensions. Corporate servers and workstations have been designed for easy, screwless maintenance for a long time, going back to the 1990s I think. I'm pretty sure I also hot swapped array drives back then by just pulling a lever. I can't remember the last time I needed a screwdriver for a corporate server/desktop; I even see laptops now (HP Elite line) that are screwless, at least the parts I've seen, and designed for easy maintenance.
- tgflynn 12y agoThe drive sleds are easy to insert and remove but to remove the drive itself from the sled for replacement you have to remove screws. At least that was my experience. I remember typically 4 easily accessible screws though, not really as big a deal as the article makes out.
- ControlledBurn 12y agoYou're correct, OEM hot swap trays are only tool-less once it's screwed into the tray (Though the OEMs do tend to ship most drives preinstalled to their trays). The OCP stuff is designed to drop the bare drive into the JBOD/Server.