After serving us well for over 6 years, we finally decided to save some of the energy we were using. Our 9221 had such nice warm RAMACs

So we pulled the plug and to make disposal of the unit easier, decided to take it apart into as small pieces as possible

As you can see, this is going to be some undertaking

The yellow cables are double-stranded SCSI, a special thing I have never seen anywhere else.

The 4-Drive RAMAC trays can be pulled out once the cables in the rear are detached.

The trays are heavy. They contain a 12 Volt lead-acid battery for controlled shut-down on power outage, 4 4GB SCSI Drive Units, one Two-Port SCSI Controller Cage. 27kg weight. Ooof!

The BUS-TAG Terminators can all be put in the museum.

Not much more to decable. I wonder if, at this stage, we could put it all back together and make it run?

Lets start stacking the parts somewhere, and the cables, so we can bring all this to the rubbish bin.

We began to understand why the finished product was so heavy. It was built to survive a a nuclear strike.

Without this “mothers little helper”, some of the disassembly would have been impossible.

And now, all we need to do, is to somehow disintegrate the remaining piece of hardware into a slag-heap, somehow. It still weighs in at about 160kg. Either we will use it as a snazzy 19” rack for our Intel servers or we will roll it out into the garden and fill it with earth, dung and gardenias (or anything that will survive a german winter like the last one).