Two drive boxes of a 2U HPE DL380 Gen10 server with all but two slots filled with drive caddies. One caddy has it's latch unsecured, this is the only one with a drive, the rest only have a 3D printed spacer in them. The 4 ones on the right are NVMe caddies and have a power button on them.
A rectangular 3D printed block with two trapezoidal slots cut out of it. You can just see a small hole in the short side for a screw. The sizing of this matches pretty closely with the size, screw location and connector placement of a standard 2.5 inch drive, however the slots are slightly off, but not in a way that actually causes problems.
A pile of HPE Gen10 caddies in plastic baggies piled behind a SATA SSD in a caddy.
It looks slightly nervous.
13 HPE Gen10 drive caddies with spacers screwed into them. One of the spacers is grey and the rest are charcoal black. There's also a caddy with a SATA SSD in it for scale, and another spacer block next to it.
Cursed Homelab Server Upgrade - Part 4
Whoops I got these out of order.
Let's talk HDD caddies or trays.
HPE's Gen10 servers have caddies which are the exact intersection of "price optimised" and "crazy enterprise nonsense".
My experience is […]
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