<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">My experience - go to your local pharmacy and purchase a dental probe. You use it to threaten the switches as in Dustin Hoffman in Marathon Man.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Seriously, the dental probe is used for releasing the latches on those cables in tight spaces.</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 November 2017 at 00:24, Jonathan Engwall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:engwalljonathanthereal@gmail.com" target="_blank">engwalljonathanthereal@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>I have ordered two flextronic 8 port switches and five topspin dual port HCA's. Most of these decisions were a combination of cost limitations (it sits on my coffee table) and careful scrutiny of photos on eBay.<br></div>Right now I have a great price on an HP SmartArray with controllers.<br></div>My first concern is that it will require a 1U machine to manage RAID and my next concern is that the controllers will need adapters for the 4x SDR cables which I believe will connect to the TopSpins and Flextronics. <br></div>Anyone with hands on experience with this '08 gear, please help me out.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Jonathan Engwall<br></font></span></div>
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