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Old July 2nd, 2008, 10:09 PM
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Single Board Computer Case With Hotswap Drives

Can someone recommend a rackmount single-board-computer case that takes
hotswap hard drives? We are stuck using Altigen for a phone mail system,
and it unfortunately uses PCI cards for its extensions and trunks. The
case we currently have has terrible hard drive access, and I need to be able
to quickly swap out hard drives when one fails.

I am hesitant to try to use modern Dell or HP server systems since those
have slots for PCI-X cards and I'm leery that antique PCI cards would work
well in such a system. (I welcome opinions about PCI compatibility in
modern servers.)

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Old July 6th, 2008, 10:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Will
Can someone recommend a rackmount single-board-computer case that takes
hotswap hard drives? We are stuck using Altigen for a phone mail system,
and it unfortunately uses PCI cards for its extensions and trunks. The
case we currently have has terrible hard drive access, and I need to be able
to quickly swap out hard drives when one fails.

I am hesitant to try to use modern Dell or HP server systems since those
have slots for PCI-X cards and I'm leery that antique PCI cards would work
well in such a system. (I welcome opinions about PCI compatibility in
modern servers.)

--
Will
Sorry cannot really recommend a case.

Regarding systems with PCI-X, not all expansion slots tend to be PCI-X, check the specs carefully, newer systems are also going to be more PCI-e based.

PCI-X will be compatible but the bus speed will slow to the speed of the slowest device connected to it, so if you do need any slots faster than PCI (storage for example) this could be a problem. From memory some systems had multiple PCi-X buses to allow isolation of this problem. Again best to check the specs.

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