Huh, this is possibly just what I am looking for. The improvement to the vibration system is great.
I have been on the fence on what to do for my build for quite awhile now, but I may go for one of these. I already e-mailed protocase about the availability of the new pods.
I have almost pulled the trigger on a Supermicro, Norco, or the Habey ESC-4242C (
Habey ESC-4242C 4U Storage Server Chassis with 24 hot-swap SAS/SATA Bay - Newegg.com). I think I pretty much have noise and power consumption addressed with all three solutions, but the thing that was giving me pause was the drive vibration issue. This seems like it would not present a noise problem, and might do a better job of dealing with vibration---or shall I say deal with it at all, since the other solutions don't really, they just expect you to use RE / Enterprise drives or you are otherwise on your own.
Now if I can only decide between RAID and ZFS.... sigh.
-JCL