I’ve been using linux for more than a decade at this point, but in all that time I’ve rarely had a disk drive. The fact that this command exists and is just, one of the core utils included with your distro along with su and kill and mount and more is just… so beautiful. 10 years amore with this OS and I’m still learning things that the elders in the audience are snickering at me for only learning 5 minutes ago while they were popping their disk trays open with a single command back when disk drives were a non optional component.
This command was very useful for quickly finding a server in a row of hundreds of identical servers. No need to read the labels or look up which rack it’s in. Just log in remotely, just use ‘eject’, and then walk down the row to the server that has its tray out.
I was wondering why they still sold servers with disk drives
For deploying your sick playlist to production, obviously!
No not mine, thermal performance always goes haywire 😔
I haven’t worked in a data center in years, so I don’t know the current norm for server hardware.
VPS providers hate this one trick
Modern problems require modern solution.
Some CD trays will auto-close though.
The Dell servers we had at the time all had slim laptop style CD trays, so no auto-close to worry about.