Re: I5 520 poor rack mount option

I'm thinking that the way to go with adding disks to a rack mounted 520 is
the 0595.  It costs a little more to purchase but is rack mounted and costs
less for maintenance.  That is what we did.

So, I'm assuming that you could have rack mounted your disk drives but for
some reason that approach was not selected.


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Hello all,

When the I5 was announce, I was verry happy to see that IBM finally
offered a rack mount option for it. This way, I tough, it will fit
better in my data center with all the other rackmounted equipment.

But, it aint so. If I have a lot of disk, we must use an extention
tower!!! We then find ourselve with an Iseries in part in a rack and in
part in a tower. That defeats the hole purpuse of rack mounting.

To me, it seems that IBM did a lousy job regarding this.

Does anybody know if this situation will last long?


Thanks, I needed to let go of a little steam.

Denis Robitaille
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