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For anyone looking to retrofit SATA SSDs into internal Dell 3.5" bays.... (aussie.zone)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is this for a workstation or server platform? I didn't think the servers had an option to mount two drives per caddy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.~~