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Tool-less drive tray for Dell servers
Hi all,
I'm hoping to get some community feedback on something we've been working on with IcyDock. Basically, some Dell customers use after-market or third-party drives (like Samsung EVOs) in their PowerEdge servers. In doing so, you have to manually install the drives into their trays, which usually also involves purchasing trays from a third party since Dell does not sell trays by themselves. If you're a company our size, you may order hundreds of drives every month and the time it takes to screw all of those into their trays is not trivial by any means - it literally takes hours.
We contacted IcyDock to help us solve this problem and they came up with a spec and is seeking feedback to see whether it'd be valuable to the community. A link to their design is below (spaced to keep the URL intact):
http:// imgur.com /a/Ps5Wi
If you use Dell servers and frequently have to install third-party drives, would you find a toolless option to be useful?