Non Hot-swap drives, in Hot-swap bays?

[TravisM]

We just purchased a few IBM netfinity servers, with Hot-Swap bays. The drives we have for them, however, are IBM Ultrastart drives that are not hot-swapable drives.

Neither the server, nor the drives came with any drive trays, or mounting racks. My question is this. If I purchase drive trays for these drive, and just slide them into the hot-swap cage, are they going to work correctly, but without their hotswap capability. Or are these drives not going to work at all?

Thanks a lot for your time.

-Travis.

 

[DaveGoTech]

To install non hot-swap drives, you need to purchase the Media Storage Kit. It includes rails and a cable to install the drives in the non hot-swap bays.

 

[hansman67]

Which server is it?
For most Netfinity/xSeries servers, 3rd party trays can be found on Ebay, you may have a more difficult time finding trays for the pc-servers.. I.E. The 330/320's but they are there. If you do have a 330 remember that they use Type 2 trays, and depending on who manufactured the drive, you will require different cables for the trays. IBM will frown upon you using these in there servers, but they should work.