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Cake day: October 18th, 2023

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  • I’ve had minor issues swapping cd drives over due to the mounting in a couple of units (HP or IBM IIRC).

    The drives came on a slide tray that clipped in rather than have standard mounts or holes. Did not take long to add holes and use a converter tray that fits into a normal 5 1/4 inch drive bays and mounts 3.5" or 2.5" drives.

    I did see one Wyse sff machine that had a laptop cd in it - no way could I fit anything in that :-)


  • If power / noise is a concern then look at the small form factor PC options on eBay.

    Some of these will take two or three drives if you remove the CD / DVD drive and can handle a fair number of tasks if memory is increased.

    I’ve been using my old Mac mini (late 2012) under Debian and Docker - maxed it out to two drives and 16GB - these pop up for £40 - £50 now and then and about take as much power in idle as my Pi boards but way more CPU abilities when running.