Proliant 1600 internal drive bay rails wanted

Hello
Does anybody have some 1600 internal rails for sale - I need the rails
to mount some internal
harddrives.
tks
phill

non-hotplug thingies ... the old green kind ?

If so, I have lots.

- LC


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Hello
Does anybody have some 1600 internal rails for sale - I need the rails
to mount some internal
harddrives.
tks
phill

Unless you have harddrives that are 5.25" wide, the rails won't help
much.

Actually, I do have an old seagate that IS wide enough to utilize the
drive rails...but this drive is ancient and slow and the size of a
DLT7000 (I mean the EXACT same dimensions!). This drive (and I suspect
any like it) is not really very useful for any relatively modern
purpose...too small, too slow, too power hungry, too noisy, etc.

There is no shame in just rigging up something to hold some 68pin
drives in the space under the CD Drive...maybe even a couple of
wire-ties, or some strips of velcro.

Jeffrey Alsip

non-hotplug thingies ... the old green kind ?

These rails are made out of (what looks like) potmetal. They have two
screw holes on the side, and the front has a little round "ear" that
protrudes at a 90 degree angle. You attach a rail to each side of the
CD Drive and when it is inserted you can secure it entirely from the
front using the two ears.

wrote:
Hello
Does anybody have some 1600 internal rails for sale - I need the rails
to mount some internal
harddrives.
tks
phill

The mounting rails for 5.25" devices are pretty standard and date back
to at least the Prosignia series. They were once avaiable at CompUSA and
were sold for Deskpro upgrades

There is also a bracket for fitting 3.5" hard drives into a standard
5.25" expansion bay. It is a two part folded-metal bracket and carries a
part number of 113673-001 and was used (among other things) to add a 5th
hard drive into a Prosignia when building a non-hot swap RAID array.

"Jeffrey Alsip" wrote in message
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non-hotplug thingies ... the old green kind ?

These rails are made out of (what looks like) potmetal. They have two
screw holes on the side, and the front has a little round "ear" that
protrudes at a 90 degree angle. You attach a rail to each side of the
CD Drive and when it is inserted you can secure it entirely from the
front using the two ears.


those arent green, and not what I was talking about. Specifically, I was
referring to the non-hotplug disk clips ...

- LC

There is also a bracket for fitting 3.5" hard drives into a standard
5.25" expansion bay.

You could conceivably use one of these brackets in conjunction with the
rails, that we have been discussing, in order to get a hard drive into
the space...in fact, you should be able to fit two of them under the CD
Drive.

However, the 1600 counts on the slots either bring completely blocked
by either a CD or a slot cover. If you can't get the slot cover back on
after mounting a hard drive, you will run the risk of overheating by
providing an inproper path for air to move out the front. With only the
one large fan mounted on the back of the unit, the 1600 needs to have
these covers in place or air will not be pulled in across the hot-swap
drive tray and out the back.

The very best solution is to hack together a way to loosely mount some
drives behind the covers and under the CD Drive. Of course, you only
have one available power connector.

Jeffrey Alsip wrote:
There is also a bracket for fitting 3.5" hard drives into a standard
5.25" expansion bay.


You could conceivably use one of these brackets in conjunction with the
rails, that we have been discussing, in order to get a hard drive into
the space...in fact, you should be able to fit two of them under the CD
Drive.

However, the 1600 counts on the slots either bring completely blocked
by either a CD or a slot cover. If you can't get the slot cover back on
after mounting a hard drive, you will run the risk of overheating by
providing an inproper path for air to move out the front. With only the
one large fan mounted on the back of the unit, the 1600 needs to have
these covers in place or air will not be pulled in across the hot-swap
drive tray and out the back.

The very best solution is to hack together a way to loosely mount some
drives behind the covers and under the CD Drive. Of course, you only
have one available power connector.

The bracket I mentioned has the lugs at the front which accept the
mounting screws for the blanking plate. When properly installed the
plastic blanking plates remain in their original locations with the hard
drive bracket behind them.

The bracket I mentioned has the lugs at the front which accept the
mounting screws for the blanking plate. When properly installed the
plastic blanking plates remain in their original locations with the hard
drive bracket behind them.

sort of ... they stick out just a whisker further because of the tabs ....

the OP hasnt clarified if they are looking for the CD Rails (what you are
talking about), the non-pluggable drive trays (internal), or the little
green clips for mounting non-pluggable drives in a standard 3x / 5x cage.

NuTCrAcKeR wrote:
The bracket I mentioned has the lugs at the front which accept the
mounting screws for the blanking plate. When properly installed the
plastic blanking plates remain in their original locations with the hard
drive bracket behind them.


sort of ... they stick out just a whisker further because of the tabs ....

the OP hasnt clarified if they are looking for the CD Rails (what you are
talking about), the non-pluggable drive trays (internal), or the little
green clips for mounting non-pluggable drives in a standard 3x / 5x cage.


Not to belabor the point, but the bracket tabs end up in front of the
plastic mounting ears of the blanking plate so the plates end up in
their original alignment with the other items in the expansion bay. It's
really quite clever how Compaq formed the bracket to do this.