I keep a lot of offline media. Lately, the number of 3.5" disks has been increasing at an alarming rate (I place limits on the sizes of spindles that I will support so this means my data density is "fixed", per "disk unit").
I keep many of the drives to which I may need frequent access in SAS shelfs. But, there's a lot that are just sitting on a closet shelf (i.e., not accessed often).
Anyone have any favorite "right sized" boxes/containers that neatly fit say 10 or 12 drives (more than this gets to be a bit heavy)?
The prepaid USPS "shoebox" is almost a good size for drives in Dell "server sleds" but way too big for bare drives. And, most of the plastic storage boxes (e.g., Sterlite) have rounded corners which make them poor fits for the squared edges of disk drives. So, I figure cardboard is the only real choice...
I keep many of the drives to which I may need frequent access in SAS shelfs. But, there's a lot that are just sitting on a closet shelf (i.e., not accessed often).
Anyone have any favorite "right sized" boxes/containers that neatly fit say 10 or 12 drives (more than this gets to be a bit heavy)?
The prepaid USPS "shoebox" is almost a good size for drives in Dell "server sleds" but way too big for bare drives. And, most of the plastic storage boxes (e.g., Sterlite) have rounded corners which make them poor fits for the squared edges of disk drives. So, I figure cardboard is the only real choice...
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