Re[2]: New Power 9

["Holger Scherer" <hs@xxxxxxx>]

there is not much use of an internal USB DVD drive - once for 
installing. So i assume IBM
decided the user an use any external DVD drive and save the space for 
the big backplanes.

-h


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Von: "Yvan Janssens" <friedkiwi@xxxxxxxx>
An: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" 
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Gesendet: 04.12.2020 20:38:57
Betreff: Re: New Power 9

> An RDX drive and an LTO drive both use SAS and the same type of bay. You just really don’t have a lot of space left anymore in a 2U case, so I pretty much second Holger.
>
> You could fit a slimline DVD in one of those, but that might not be worth the effort. USB or network based installations are so much easier/faster so you might be better off using that real estate for NVMe storage or increased airflow