For anyone looking to retrofit SATA SSDs into internal Dell 3.5" bays....
Based on an r210 II I'm currently doing up
- Orico HB-325 3.5 to 2.5 inch Hard Drive Caddy - don't even bother. Could be useful in a CRU sled, but I don't have a dell one to hand.
- SilverStone SDP08B 3.5" to 2 x 2.5" Drive Bay Converter Getting better, but all four screws don't align in the dell caddy
- SilverStone SDP08B, 3.5" to 3 x 2.5" Drive Bay Converter Absolutely perfect.
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I just use double stick tape, or a loop of packing tape...
I'm suddenly reminded of a mate who suspended his hdd on a rubber band. It went very well until the PC environs destroyed the rubber. damned thing snapped half his DIMMs on the way down
well, a hard drive is a bad idea to just band in, those are heavy bois, a ssd though...
...is still a bad idea because the issue is an unstable mount ill suited to the environs
As a practical matter, the only real need is to make sure there isn't too much stress on the cables. Tape, Velcro, a bit of cardboard, etc are all valid approaches. Temperature could be a concern, but probably not
Is this for a workstation or server platform? I didn't think the servers had an option to mount two drives per caddy.
Gonna be a proxmox with a couple of jobbing boxes (nothing huge, mostly OS' and testbeds that aren't worth building a box for). Mine has two 3.5" internal bays, and five SATA ports
EDIT: I take back what I said, I missed a detail when I was did my first check. My thought process had a bad assumption, sorry about that.
Ah I forgot a detail to that question, but I think you answered it.Since you said Dell, I was curious if you meant a rack mount server chassis or tower workstation - the 210 RAID card operates in both chassis.By that port count I'm guessing this is a Precision tower of some variety.Doesn't aliexpress has the same kind of stuff for cheaper? I mean for caddies, it doesn't need to be really high quality
Probably. Feel free to find your own that fit. I'm just going by what I've tested that works for secure drive mounting.
Man, 17 bucks per drive is pretty steep.
It's not per drive. Those all hold multiple drives.
Ahhhhh, ok.