Life of a Sysadmin

The occassional trials and tribulations of a jack of all tr ades sysadmin in a startup in Silicon Valley

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March 2006

Drive carriers, or I'm being charged for screws?

I wanted to add a pair of hard drives to a server. I had the drives, but I needed a few of Dell's custom mounting trays to use them. My sales rep sent me a quote for the parts (not available through the website without a hard drive it seems). The trays would be $10.95 each. There was another item with on the quote; 8 "SCR,6-32X1/4,FLH,MS,ZPS,CTSK" at $.05 each. I asked the sales rep about it, and he said they were screws. I can't believe Dell is going to bother to charge me for 20 cents worth of screws. Why didn't they just add another buck to the cost of the drive tray and call it done. Heck, they could charge $20 per tray and I wouldn't think much of it.