RDS2216 Pics and Thoughts

Hardware MikroTik hardware general
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I got my RDS2216 in today!
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The disk trays are as flimsy as something that came off a 3D printer, so you’re not going to be frequently hot-swapping with these.
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There’s an issue with this side, however. The screws wouldn’t go in straight. We loosened a few of them and kind of jiggled it a little to get the dog ear to work, but the screws still felt like they went in at an angle.
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Here it is racked up in the lab for initial tests (and I don’t have 40G/100G networking anywhere else yet).
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I’m working on a short video and we’ll go the rounds with it.

That little black box with red tabs on it is six SATA drives going into a CCR2116. We’ll see how they compare.

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Are we having too much fun? :laughing:

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Not impressed for now. The deployment of many Docker containers is painful. I bought it exclusively to deploy things like Victorialogs and Akvorado and I am hitting a wall.
Not the entire fault of Mikrotik though, many providers are using docker-compose or weird Dockerfile. I am sure it will become better in a few releases :slight_smile: