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Date:      Thu, 09 Mar 2000 12:38:17 -0600
From:      "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net>
To:        Mike Squires <mikes@sir-alan.chem.indiana.edu>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Drive cooling
Message-ID:  <3.0.3.32.20000309123817.0093e790@207.227.119.2>
In-Reply-To: <200003092212.RAA67477@sir-alan.chem.indiana.edu>

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At 05:12 PM 3/9/00 -0500, Mike Squires wrote:
>
>The cheapest method is to bolt a 5 inch fan to two front panel blanking
plates,
>with an empty space the size of one plate inbetween, and then connect it to
>the PS.  This will be more reliable than the $150/each drive trays, since
>the fans are larger and can be easily monitored and you eliminate several
>SCSI connectors with each drive supported this way.  It does look ugly,
>though...

SuperMicro's 750 cases (AT or ATX) have cages that mount on either side of
the drive bay.  The covers have vents, so you can set up a nice push/pull
cooling setup.


Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net
Systems/Network Administrator
FreeBSD - the power to serve



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