• TaleyaOP
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      8 months ago

      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

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        well, a hard drive is a bad idea to just band in, those are heavy bois, a ssd though…

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          …is still a bad idea because the issue is an unstable mount ill suited to the environs

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      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

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    Doesn’t aliexpress has the same kind of stuff for cheaper? I mean for caddies, it doesn’t need to be really high quality

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      Probably. Feel free to find your own that fit. I’m just going by what I’ve tested that works for secure drive mounting.

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

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      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

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        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.