Just wanted to say it's really nice of you to post a simple guide how to do stuff like this. I suspect the procedure is similar on my 730 with 2.5 drives. I won't replace upgrade it now but it's good to know in the future.
Even once you know how to extract the 3.5 inch HDD blank filler (DP/N 058PNT) it is still a heck of a chore. 😖 Huge thanks for putting this video together.
hi, I got a question for you :) I got a deal on an r720 with originally 2.5 bays and the seller is saying its not going to work for my 3.5 drives. Any suggestions I've never touched these type of computers before so I dont know if im missing something obvious. In a normal computer its just a cable i plug it to a 2.5 or 3.5 no fuss but I'm not sure if dell's require an hdd bay . I dont mind frankesteining it a bit and just having mypair of hdd drives sitting there without being secure. Any recommendations?
same as what he removed here you would pull out the whole block of the 2.5s and put a 3.5 in and then swap out the rectangular backplane that you saw him showing the capacitors on.
Just wanted to say it's really nice of you to post a simple guide how to do stuff like this.
I suspect the procedure is similar on my 730 with 2.5 drives. I won't replace upgrade it now but it's good to know in the future.
Are you shitting me... I been looking all over all day to do this. Ty ty ty.
Even once you know how to extract the 3.5 inch HDD blank filler (DP/N 058PNT) it is still a heck of a chore. 😖
Huge thanks for putting this video together.
hi, I got a question for you :) I got a deal on an r720 with originally 2.5 bays and the seller is saying its not going to work for my 3.5 drives. Any suggestions I've never touched these type of computers before so I dont know if im missing something obvious. In a normal computer its just a cable i plug it to a 2.5 or 3.5 no fuss but I'm not sure if dell's require an hdd bay . I dont mind frankesteining it a bit and just having mypair of hdd drives sitting there without being secure. Any recommendations?
same as what he removed here you would pull out the whole block of the 2.5s and put a 3.5 in and then swap out the rectangular backplane that you saw him showing the capacitors on.
no. the chassis itself is different for 2.5'' and 3.5''. wont work sadly.
you never did a video powering it on like you said.
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