UPDATE: The smart trays do work in the non hot plug slots (tested this). No extra force required.
I'd be willing to bet that the dumb trays fit the smart slots as well, but I'm not spending $20-25 on a dumb tray to find out. The smart trays are cheaper ($10-15).
So they have these new intelligent hard drive trays, which frankly is a bunch of marketing bs.
I may have found some non hot plug cages for my ML350e Gen8, but it accepts the dumb version of the tray that looks something like this:
The intelligent trays look like this:
My question is: can you use the intelligent trays in place of the dumb ones? I know this sounds stupid, but the intelligent trays are far more plentiful and are about 1/2 the cost of the dumb non hot plug trays.
I'd be willing to bet that the dumb trays fit the smart slots as well, but I'm not spending $20-25 on a dumb tray to find out. The smart trays are cheaper ($10-15).
So they have these new intelligent hard drive trays, which frankly is a bunch of marketing bs.
I may have found some non hot plug cages for my ML350e Gen8, but it accepts the dumb version of the tray that looks something like this:
The intelligent trays look like this:
My question is: can you use the intelligent trays in place of the dumb ones? I know this sounds stupid, but the intelligent trays are far more plentiful and are about 1/2 the cost of the dumb non hot plug trays.
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