Tool-less drive tray for Dell servers

[nessa421]

Hi all,

I'm hoping to get some community feedback on something we've been working on with IcyDock. Basically, some Dell customers use after-market or third-party drives (like Samsung EVOs) in their PowerEdge servers. In doing so, you have to manually install the drives into their trays, which usually also involves purchasing trays from a third party since Dell does not sell trays by themselves. If you're a company our size, you may order hundreds of drives every month and the time it takes to screw all of those into their trays is not trivial by any means - it literally takes hours.

We contacted IcyDock to help us solve this problem and they came up with a spec and is seeking feedback to see whether it'd be valuable to the community. A link to their design is below (spaced to keep the URL intact):

http:// imgur.com /a/Ps5Wi

If you use Dell servers and frequently have to install third-party drives, would you find a toolless option to be useful?

 

[jsmithepa]

Well ANYTHING that take the chore out of things is desirable. Time is money? Depends how much they want for this "solution."

 

[nessa421]

Well ANYTHING that take the chore out of things is desirable. Time is money? Depends how much they want for this "solution."

Well, at present we get our 2.5" trays from a third party for $10/ea. I'd imagine a toolless tray would be a bit more expensive, but what do you think is reasonable? I think $2-$4 more would be good.