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On 07/06/2020 10:50, J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> On 7 June 2020 09:41:16 CEST, antlists <antlists@××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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>> On 06/06/2020 20:14, J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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>>> One of my old cases had plastic strips with little sticks on them |
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>> that would fit into the screwholes. Those strips would then slot into |
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>> the mounting points for the disks. |
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>>> No messing around with screws and really easy to swap drives. They |
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>> would be perfectly mounted as well. |
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>>> Too bad I don't see the same with most other cases. |
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>> I remember that. Compaqs with 75 MEGA Hz cpu's iirc. |
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>> Cheers, |
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>> Wol |
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> Not just Compaq. I think mine was a coolermaster case at the time. |
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> Toolless hotswap is a useful feature when regularly swapping drives. |
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These weren't hotswap (just ordinary IDE), but it's a damn sight easier |
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putting the rails on a drive on a desk, rather than putting the screws |
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in a drive in a case :-) |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |
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