On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > If the drives and carriers are inseperable, then when HP decides to stop > selling them, then no new drives can be had. However, if once one has
HP probably stopped making them when people now on this list were in short pants. How time flies. > the carriers, one can swap drives in them, then future upgrades are > easier. They're just the usual SCSI drives (typically 80 pin) screwed into the carriers with the usual screws. I threw out a bunch of these (or similar) Compaq carriers a couple years ago. Swapping drives is a screwdriver job. > Does anyone make a universal hot-plug carrier or do the styles keep No. And they change all the time. Dell is disgusting this way. For their older (~1550) stuff, Dell carriers now cost about the same as a used 16GB drive. Dave -- The president of the United States is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. He is not the commander-in-chief of the government, nor is he the commander-in-chief of the country.
