Dell Computer Drive Bay Caddies

The Definitive Guide to the Dell Hard Drive Caddy

Managing your hard drives can be made so much easier with a Dell hard drive caddy. These products have a wide variety of styles, but they all have one function: to make the storage and swapping of your various hard drives much easier. eBay is a great platform for finding affordable Dell hard drive caddy models, and youll easily be able to purchase multiple products to help extend the storage capacity of your favourite rig/server machine.

A Dell HDD or SSD caddy allows you to quickly swap out internal hard drives of different designs so that you can quickly gain access to the stored information. For example, if you wanted to swap out one of these drives in a modern desktop, not only would you have to ensure that the SATA or mSATA and power connectors are fully affixed to the internal cables of the Dell PC, but youll also have to affix the drive to the mounting rack with screws. In many cases, a product like a Dell Precision T1600 hard drive caddy can help you bypass this process by already having the connector attached to the caddy and allowing you to simply slide the drive into place.

Outside of the unique colour, this caddy doesnt have a connector at its base; in fact, the convenience of this caddy lies in its ability to help you slide your drives in quickly. The sides of this Dell HDD caddy have rails, which means that once you attach the caddy to the drive, you can simply slide the drive into the mounting bracket, and it will lock into place.

When you own an mSATA solid-state drive, sometimes, its unique sizing of 2.5 inches means that you wont be able to fit it directly into the mounting rack of the computer. Fortunately, you can use a Dell 2.5 SSD caddy to make up the difference by adding an inch to the width of the SSD. As a result, the 2.5-inch SSD will slide smoothly into a 3.5-inch bay.

When you have one of these caddies, you can use them for the following:

• Quick server hard drive swap-outs
• Removing an internal hard drive so that you can place it in an external enclosure
• Quickly attaching media drives that have dense 4k footage