How in the world do you get a R720 to fit into rails? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by minorsecond@lemm.ee to c/homelab@lemmy.ml

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I hate having to work on my R720 because getting it back into the rails is a major pain in the ass. It barely fits, so I have to wrestle with it for half an hour to get it to fit.

Is there a trick to this?

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[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

2 person job normally, that's all.

Just a pain, one reason I almost prefer supermicro rails, but Dell is better at everything else.

[-] minorsecond@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I’ll have to get my wife to help me next time.

It’s those damn pins on the side, I think. It seems like they catch.

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

They do, I think it's the one thing I had my wife help me with, all my other servers were easy to solo.

It just sucks, the r730 is mildly better but not really.

[-] minorsecond@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Are the supermicro rails much easier to work with? I’m considering swapping them out if so.

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Not really, and they're not compatible.

I have these things called kingrails from an oem case that are beefy and work pretty well, and some gigabyte ones too.

Good rails are just hard to come by I guess.

[-] brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I thought I had it locked in once and dropped the damn thing from 2ft. Luckily no damage.

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