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March 31st, 2013 17:00
Need help installing 4drives in a dimension E510
I picked up an old e510 and I would like to setup a raid group but how do I install more than two drives in it. Is there brackets that I can buy to installing the other two or three drives. Ay help will be most welcome thanks.
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March 31st, 2013 18:00
The Dimension E510/5150 was designed to support two hard drives, two optical drives, and has a space that can accommodate a 3.5" diskette drive or a card reader. I suppose you could use an adapter of some sort to install a 3.5" hard drive into each of the optical drive bays. If you are trying to create a server of some sort I would think it would be more efficient to procure a chassis intended for that purpose.
Are you aware that you will need an add-on card to handle the higher order RAID you are implying? So far as I know, the Dell BIOS on this machine only supports RAID 1.
Here is some additional data for you: Dimension E510 Service Manual, Hard Drive Caddy for Dimension E510. You may not require the caddies for the hard drives as many of these machines included them by default, but if you got this one second hand it is possible they are missing.