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This is very off topic but, I have no idea where else to ask. We obtained some used Leveno CTO7483 desktop units for experimentation. I had intended to install CentOS-7 on one of them. As they arrived with a vendor upgraded Windows 7ProSP1 install without media I decided to pull the disk drive and install onto a spare drive that I installed.

Those of you with any experience with this model computer or its family can tell where this is going.

Basically, the disk drive module for these things is disposable. The HDD is enclosed in a removable caddy but is welded to it. You can only replace the HDD with a pre-mounted HDD in yet another caddy, which item is available only from Leveno.

My question is: Does anyone here know of a source for an after-market caddy that fits these machines ad which allows one to install a standard low profile
3.5 inch SATA HDD? My google-fu has failed in my attempts, but that may becuse I have no idea how to phrase a search for this situation.

10 thoughts on - Leveno HDD Caddies

  • Never mind. One can flex the caddy sufficiently to pop the drive. Although this is definitely not the supported procedure. The case is marked by the vendor with ‘Non-Return Hard Drive Machine’.

  • welded? I find that really hard to believe. lenovo’s website for that old model ThinkCentre M58p suggests its IBM/Lenovo PN 43n9659, whihc various sites online list. Those are obsolete machines, so you’re dealing with surplus/recycled parts.

  • intended to can is the only caddy profile

    I have no direct experience with this machine but have found that a wide piece of Velcro will work well sometimes.

  • Fred Erickson wrote:
    had vendor situation.

    I have trouble seeing that working – well, maybe in a workstation;
    certainly not in a server w/ hot swap bays. The clearances are far too tight.

    You said you flexed them out. Consider seeing if there’s anywhere to use a self-tapping metal screw.

    mark

  • I wonder if a visit to your friendly local machine shop would be in order.

    This one time (at band camp) I had a full-height 10mb IBM hard drive that I wanted to install in a desktop case and there was no mount for it in the case at all. I took the whole thing to a machine shop and the guy there took measurements and made a support bracket in about a half-hour.

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