I hacked it.

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura) 08/28/2020 at 22:19 • Filed to: None

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I shucked an old IDE CDROM drive for it’s case, then used a 3.5-inch adapter and a drill and some pliers and it’s LOVELY! But what’s weird is that Dell included six SATA ports on the board and only bays for two or three of them. This is a Dell Precision 5820, FWIW. 1000-watt power supply and FOLDING. Maybe two GPUs... It’s got 64 GB of RAM! Ridiculous, eh?

jminer > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 08/28/2020 at 22:30

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Ridiculous in the best way!

They actually sell a cage to fill those bays with hard drive slots, but you’ve got it figured out nicely though.

I’m jelly over here with my mid-tower case that has nowhere near that many neat features.

wafflesnfalafel > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 08/28/2020 at 22:36

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nice - you have more RAM in that box than the entire planet did 40 years ago

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 08/28/2020 at 22:37

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You used blue tape in my computer. 

barnie > wafflesnfalafel 08/28/2020 at 22:54

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That was my 1st thought, too. Ba ck in ~88 it was $400 a meg!

Some kids I was working with got me good when I wanted to write 3 0 lines of code to drop a 100k library. They said “We work with gigs, not megs these days.” So sad. Since I was boss, we’re not depending on the dependencies of that library, though ...

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 08/28/2020 at 22:54

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Is an ssd as easy as it looks to transfer to?

thats a lot of folding

subexpression > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 08/28/2020 at 23:06

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Dell probably puts the same motherboard in multiple cases. They don’t make their own, so even if they don’t put it in a case with 6 bays or eSATA ports it may be cheaper to buy something closer to the supplier’s generic/reference design.

Jb boin > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 08/28/2020 at 23:28

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5.25" to 3. 5" and 3.5" to 2.5" adapters exists and you also have the ability to put more than one drive on them and it can be hotswap , for example with this kind of unit :

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > jminer 08/28/2020 at 23:34

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Just drunk ahead on hand.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 08/28/2020 at 23:37

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 I used blue tape on this one, also.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas 08/28/2020 at 23:38

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 Just like any other hard drive, only faster.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > subexpression 08/28/2020 at 23:39

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 That makes sense.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Jb boin 08/28/2020 at 23:40

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 Yes, but my solution was free and I didn't have to wait for Amazon to deliver it. And I have what I need now. An OS solid state drive and a pair of mirrored side of drives for storage.

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 08/28/2020 at 23:44

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FWIW, that blue tape is still holding. 

bison78 > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 08/29/2020 at 01:17

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Just like any other hard drive, only faste r.

What about NVMe drives? Those are even faster.