• Taleya@aussie.zoneOP
      5·
      1 year 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

        • Taleya@aussie.zoneOP
          11·
          1 year ago

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

    • NollijEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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

  • Krafting@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

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

    • Taleya@aussie.zoneOP
      2·
      1 year ago

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

  • computergeek125@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

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

    • Taleya@aussie.zoneOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      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

      • computergeek125@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year 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.