Functions of a single brain cell

I got into work today and the entire space under my desk was filled with one box.  I was expecting a delivery but not something big enough to put both my kids in.

Inside, the box was filled with plastic packing pockets to fill the empty space.  In the none empty space there where 8 smaller boxes.  In those boxes where 2 plastic packing braces holding a plastic box.  In the plastic box was a single 450Gb disk.

After unboxing all 8 disks, I went into the server room to put them in the netapp unit for use.

You may notice on the right hand side there are 2 black rectangles, these are the disk interfaces.

These are the interfaces on the disks

Apart from the slight problem of the interface on the disks being the wrong shape…they are on the bottom left of the disks, not the bottom right.

I have no idea how much we paid for these things (I don’t do the ordering or budgets), but looking on ebay they’re going for just shy of $1000 a piece.

…Oops….

hopefully they can go back