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August 14th, 2023 22:57
XPS 8930, mounting for HDD2 and 3?
XPS 8930
I want to add one or two additional (3.5in) hard disks to my existing desktop, while leaving the original in place.
The top side bay with the original disk (labeled HDD1) mounts the drive into place with a plastic caddy within a metal bracket, and I have extra plastic caddies.
The additional bottom bays (HDD2 and HDD3) do not seem to use any such caddy bracket and are in an awkward place where I cannot simply screw into the disks' built-in screw holes, nor can I seem to remove the metal brackets themselves.
How can I go about securely mounting an additional drive here, without removing everything including the motherboard?
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Chino de Oro
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August 15th, 2023 00:53
@evanskaufman , the drive cages may have pre-installed cables attaches on the side of the drive cage. You may want to remove those cables from the clip to prevent any accidental damage to motherboard SATA ports and to allow the drive cage to freely detach. Each drive cage can be removed by unscrew 2 screws of #1 in first picture below.
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RoHe
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August 14th, 2023 23:28
Read this post.
(Don't know where the rest of that thread went, but it seems to have gotten scrambled during the forum's recent software update.)
Vic384
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August 15th, 2023 00:39
@evanskaufman The bottom bays (drive cages) can be removed from the case. Once removed, 3.5" drives can be mounted to the cages using standard 3.5" drive screws (6-32x1/4"). Once the drives are mounted in the cages the cages can be reinstalled into the case. By the way, 2.5" drives can be mounted using the holes in the top of the cage.