In message Pine.GSO.3.95.980221135920.501Y-100000@tor-adm1, you write:
On Sat, 21 Feb 1998, christopher williams wrote:
It *was* a pain to keep the drive shells in stock -- they're brittle and break easily; we ruined 2 or 3 over the course of a year.
The plastic construction isn't the sturdiest thing, but if youkeep them in a cabinet somewhere, what is there to break? I suppose you could also look for DEC StorageWorks resellers and buy assembled drive canisters from them too, if you don't want to put them together yourself.
That's what we did -- we put them together ourselves (the ULTIMATE in DIY... not recommended).
Upper Management[tm] thought we'd save money by assembling drive cannisters and drives ourselves. A couple of the shells got broken when they had to be disassembled to be put together correctly.
Also, instead of simply replacing the entire cannister, Upper Management[tm] decided that it would much cheaper to instead pull the cannisters apart and just replace the bad *drive*.
DIY support? I do not recommend it.
-cgw-