On 9/26/10 11:09 AM, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > > > Joel's widget number 2 > > On Sep 26, 2010, at 10:47, Chris Adams <cmad...@hiwaay.net> wrote: > >> Once upon a time, Joel Jaeggli <joe...@bogus.com> said: >>> On Sep 26, 2010, at 8:26, Chris Adams <cmad...@hiwaay.net> wrote: >>>> There are servers and storage arrays that have a front that is nothing >>>> but hot-swap hard drive bays (plugged into backplanes), and they've been >>>> doing front-to-back cooling since day one. Maybe the router vendors >>>> need to buy a Dell, open the case, and take a look. >>> >>> The backplane for a sata disk array is 8 wires per drive plus a common >>> power bus. >> >> Server vendors managed cooling just fine for years with 80 pin SCA >> connectors. Hard drives are also harder to cool, as they are a solid >> block, filling the space, unlike a card of chips. > > It's the same 80 wires on every single drive in the string. > > There are fewer conductors embedded in 12 drive sca backplane as there are in > a 12 drive sata backplane, in both cases they are generally two layer pcbs. > Compared to what 10+ layer pcbs that are a approaching 1/4" thick on the > router.
Aw come on, that's no reason you can't just drill it full of holes. I mean, it is 2010. It should be wireless by now. ~Seth
