Re: New Power 9

An RDX drive and an LTO drive both use SAS and the same type of bay. You just really don’t have a lot of space left anymore in a 2U case, so I pretty much second Holger.

You could fit a slimline DVD in one of those, but that might not be worth the effort. USB or network based installations are so much easier/faster so you might be better off using that real estate for NVMe storage or increased airflow

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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: New Power 9

Speculation on my part, but maybe IBM felt that it was better to
accommodate an RDX drive, which I happen to prefer over LTO and DVD.

On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 11:28 AM Greg Wilburn <
gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Just signing the paperwork to buy a replacement for our Power 7...

Just curious why the new Power 9 (rack mount) has both the LTO and DVD as
external devices instead of internal like on the Power 7
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