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Drive caddies for a minitower?
I have a bunch of Optiplex GX620 minitowers. I'm about to start adding additional storage to them, turning them into network attached storage appliances.
I have the two stock slider caddies in the bottom of each. One is loaded with the boot drive. A second one is for an additional drive, to become shared across a network.
The motherboard shows a total of four SATA ports. I'm thinking one drive for boot, three drives on software RAID, shared out.
How do I mount the other two drives in the case? I'm assuming in one of the [available] drive bays, but that will take a caddy, correct? Anyone have any suggestions or a part number?
bradthetechnut
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December 1st, 2018 19:00
Are you looking to put HDD's where the optical drives normally go? 5.25" to 3.5" hot swap HDD adapter - eBay This is just one example. You might find better prices depending on what you're looking for.
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December 5th, 2018 13:00
You put silverstone 2.5 inch adapters or DELL R494D in the 3.5 bays or you get a 5.25 inch bay that holds 4 2.5 inch drives.
https://www.amazon.com/ICY-DOCK-Trayless-Hot-swap-Mobile/dp/B072618W1D