Dell HDD Caddy Upgrade

Last crawled date: 4 years, 3 months ago

Here comes yet another imaginative project to add to my obsession with piling hard drives in things that were never supposed to have that many hard drives.
This is designed as a bolt in upgrade for many Dell mini tower chassis and uses the standard Dell HDD caddys! This will require the drilling of the bottom three and five front rivets (very easy) It will then reuse the bottom three and two front larger holes during re-mounting
Due to inconsistencies is chassis manufacturing the holes might not line up perfect....but they are dang close!
This cage will work on the following:
Dell Precision T1650, T1700, 3620, 3420, Dell Optiplex 390, 790, 990, 3010, 3020, 7010, 7020, 9010, 9020 Tower.
I will be posting a video and updating this thing later once the build is complete to show how it was installed.
Final word...I used a Robo R2 which is a pretty decent printer. With that being said I did a test at 70mm/s (see included pic). This caused the corners to bulge around the keyway that the HDD caddy slides into and made it very tight. Once the speed was slowed down the corners came out great and the caddys fit perfect! Except the top is a bit harder than the rest cause it is very close to the reinforcement i put in the top corners.
Printer beware, when printing at 45mm/s @.2 height it took 32 hours!