This locking mechanism is designed for security purpose by Dell to prevent a rogue opening of the case side door or the front drives door when you have a physical lock behind the case preventing it from being opened by an unauthorized personnel. In that scenario you open the lock then the case door then the button then the front drives mesh.
Yes, that was fairly obvious once I found the blue symbol under the lid. I can see how some might want this feature. But I'm betting it's less than 5% of users would choose to use it, so it being locked from the factory, IMO, is a fail. Especially, when you look at what Dell charges to make the primary disk a SSD and many buyers like me will opt to do it themselves and get a better spec'd and larger SSD. Doing that means, you have to get the front to drop so you have access to the drive bays, so again, I think the right choice is to have the lock unlocked from the factory. Plus it adds cost that I think most won't use. Once you know how it works, no longer an issue.
@@FixitMys3lf That's incorrect too. Most users that buy workstations are workers, in companies. In companies, you dotn want the night shift janitor who doubles as a hack to be heisting HDDs. That is also why there is an intruder switch, to inform the user, or IT that someone opened the case. Where you come off with the 5% figure is.. well I think you pulled it out of your butt. For that is just not true. All you have to do is look up the Service Tag and you get the documentation.
i got the i9 variant of this machine, and uses regular consumer ram. as for the hdd, i had the same issue and agree with your statement with the online literature possibly helping(?)
Thanks! Do you like the additional ram you put in, how much did you put in total? I have a 7820 as well. About to put some more hard drives in it and hopefully set up as Raid 5. Need to look up what the biggest sized drives it can take.
Dude. Whats up with this video? Your title is how to get hard drives in, yet you completely skip that part of the system and fixate on a removal of the front bezel and a shit stick of ram. Retitle the video so people don't waste their time.
Thanks for the video. FYI - The curve in the RAM edge is standard for DDR4 RAM. In the video you compared it to DDR3 which does not have a curve.
Thank you so much for this. I kept thinking I wasn't pressing that front slider hard enough, but yeah, it was that internal lock.
Thanks so much.. I was losing my mind trying to figure this out.
Wow un F believable! I spent forever on this, just as an FYI. I saw those, and thought they were for some fan.
Thank you! I was trying to figure out how to access the HDDs. Searching RUclips and found your video. It helps!
Glad it helped.
This locking mechanism is designed for security purpose by Dell to prevent a rogue opening of the case side door or the front drives door when you have a physical lock behind the case preventing it from being opened by an unauthorized personnel. In that scenario you open the lock then the case door then the button then the front drives mesh.
Yes, that was fairly obvious once I found the blue symbol under the lid.
I can see how some might want this feature. But I'm betting it's less than 5% of users would choose to use it, so it being locked from the factory, IMO, is a fail. Especially, when you look at what Dell charges to make the primary disk a SSD and many buyers like me will opt to do it themselves and get a better spec'd and larger SSD. Doing that means, you have to get the front to drop so you have access to the drive bays, so again, I think the right choice is to have the lock unlocked from the factory.
Plus it adds cost that I think most won't use. Once you know how it works, no longer an issue.
@@FixitMys3lf That's incorrect too. Most users that buy workstations are workers, in companies. In companies, you dotn want the night shift janitor who doubles as a hack to be heisting HDDs. That is also why there is an intruder switch, to inform the user, or IT that someone opened the case. Where you come off with the 5% figure is.. well I think you pulled it out of your butt. For that is just not true. All you have to do is look up the Service Tag and you get the documentation.
i got the i9 variant of this machine, and uses regular consumer ram. as for the hdd, i had the same issue and agree with your statement with the online literature possibly helping(?)
So, how do you access the hard drive bays? Mine looks like it needs a key to access the hard drive bays from the front but it didn't come with a key.
Thanks! Do you like the additional ram you put in, how much did you put in total? I have a 7820 as well. About to put some more hard drives in it and hopefully set up as Raid 5. Need to look up what the biggest sized drives it can take.
If you can tell us, for what you use this machine? CAD, ML, 3D?
LOL. Looks like it came with the Chinese precision cut RAM.
Dude. Whats up with this video? Your title is how to get hard drives in, yet you completely skip that part of the system and fixate on a removal of the front bezel and a shit stick of ram. Retitle the video so people don't waste their time.