Post B0nuhqqih7ba1vGkSG by benjojo@benjojo.co.uk
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(DIR) Post #B0nuhqqih7ba1vGkSG by benjojo@benjojo.co.uk
2025-12-01T12:04:43Z
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Something I miss about the days where Intel were building server cases and motherboards is that they generally didn't skimp out on the things that made the operators lives a lot easier.A great example is the drive caddies, take a look at the thickness of this thing! makes it so much easier to insert the drive when you're not trying to screw it into what is basically razor blades Drive caddies seem to be very aggressively "designed for manufacturing" even though when doing so often makes the lives of the people's who have to do the replacements a lot worse
(DIR) Post #B0pDBB60UR3lYRVsA4 by 992jo@chaos.social
2025-12-01T16:12:40Z
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@benjojo I think one point might also be airflow: once you stuff 4 3.5" or 5 2.5" drives on the 19" server frontplate there is not much space left for airflow through that. so shaving a millimeter of each end of a drive caddie might give you some additional space for airflow. But that's just an idea that I have, it might not be that effective.But yes, the old intel drive caddies were solid stuff.
(DIR) Post #B0pDBCGK9YuHAjLcsi by benjojo@benjojo.co.uk
2025-12-01T17:59:29Z
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@992jo from recent experience it seems that all of the really high power (15w+ u.3 nvme) drives that actually need airflow going over them at all times are finned to give them more surface area to work with so I don't entirely think that losing a couple of millimeters on the edges is going to really hurt that much for a SATA drive of a few watts
(DIR) Post #B0pDBDDWbSGI8L2u9o by ignaloidas@not.acu.lt
2025-12-02T03:10:49.040Z
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@benjojo@benjojo.co.uk @992jo@chaos.social it's more that for many servers the airflow for the CPU has to come through the drives, so those couple millimeters on the edges hurt the CPU