Looking to buy 4 (or less, any number you are willing to sell) HDD caddies for an EX490 server cobbled together from a chassis with a replacement PSU. Will pay for shipping from anywhere in the world.

Bert-Jan van Regteren
The Netherlands

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Forum member BlokeWithBeard posted he purchased caddies. Here is where he mentions purchasing them viewtopic.php?p=70323#p70323

Check it out and let me know how you make out. You might want to send BlokeWithBeard a PM and ask for a picture of the caddies he has purchased just to make certain they are what your looking for.

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I sent off a PM to BlokeWithBeard immediateley. Will let you know how it turns out. I must confess I'm a bit doubtfull. Where would Ripcaster (the shop that claims to sell them) get them from? I doubt HP would supply just this one company with caddies.
Anyway, we'll see.

Thanks for your help again!

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I think you will find that Ripcaster is a company that specialises in selling (recycling) computer parts from old systems. I have never seen a company (even HP) that will retail the caddies for the EX470/475 anywhere as yet. Time will tell.

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Its why I also asked to see a picture of them. I did visit the site and they offer no picture or much info about the caddies. I can say one thing tho by the time you get one here state side it would be expensive.

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I haven't heard from BlokeWithBeard yet (hardly surprising since I've only PM'ed him a couple of hours ago ). But, impatient as I am, I ordered one. I do agree with SteffJay; I'm assuming this will be a part from an older machine. If it works, thats fine with me. According to the checkout procedure and the confirmation e-mail the part wil cost me 10,21 GBP (including shipping!). That's not too bad.

Possible outcomes:

- I've been cheated and receive nothing (unlikely); lost 10,21 GBP. I'll live
- I receive a non fitting caddy; lost 10,21 GBP. I'll live
- I receive an old (or maybe new) caddy that works. Great, I'll order three more!

I'll keep you posted.

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Sometimes you see them come up on eBay other times you see forum members parting out their servers.

erail found some caddies he had to modify abit for his MSS Portmulitiplier project => viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4185

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Well, it's been three weeks now. I did receive an automated order confirmation from Ripcaster, and that was it. No more mails, and no caddy. They didn't bill me either.
Can't really recommend them, at this time.

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they are out of the caddy's and dont forsee getting anymore in. I though someone else posted that info in one of these threads (Comp1962 I thought but I could be wrong).

Yes I posted a message they were out of stock. I contacted them to see if I could obtain a picture of them to verify they had the correct listing. 24 Hrs later I received a response from them that they were out of stock.

This is one item I which HP would sell.

I do recall Alex mentioning that when he was with HP that another department use to borrow caddies from his dept but I just remember him posting something about it is all.

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The Blackbird gaming PCs use(d) the same trays.

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Yeah I tried looking for trays under that also an came up with nothing. They sure don't make it easy.