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Upgrading Juniper RE-5.0 (RE-400) to SSD

There’s a recommendation at Juniper clue on which SSD to use when replacing the traditional notebook-grade 2,5″ PATA HDD in your routing engine. The recommended Transcend 8 GB SSD is a bit outdated and was hard to find, so I gave the following Transcend 32 GB (model TS32GPSD320) a try: Amazon link.

Well, the most important thing is: the drive works fine! However, due to some tiny design flaw in the range of millimeters the result looks like this:

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That means you can’t tighten the SSD to the RE and it will be sitting there half in the air. Anyways, it does work. :-)