Drive Caddies for Z800 and Z840

[Wareham]

Are the drive caddies/trays for the Z840 the same as those for the Z800?

[SDH]

Ours for the Z600 also work fine in the Z620 and Z640.... I'd say yes to your question.

A tiny tip.... those all are a bit sticky in their sliding in/out.  I use a small amount of silicon gel lubricant on a stripped down quality long q-tip and add that into the metal rails these slide into.  Then I remove any excess.  Made a huge difference in my utility workstations where I'm changing out different drives/SSDs frequently.  Not worth the trouble if you're leaving the same drives in place for years on end.

[DGroves · Accepted solution]

actually the z800 and the z840/820 drive caddies are ever so slightly different, they will interchange however as the basic dimensions are so close and i'm guessing this applies to the 600  620/640 systems

it appears the mfgr of the caddies changed during the z800/z800 lines and production tolerances appear to be the cause of tray swaps sometimes being a tight fit

if you have a caddy that is still hard to insert/remove after trying silicone on it you can take medium and then fine sandpaper to the guide rails to trim them down for a caddy that will easily slid in/out

[Wareham]

Thank you for the help and the tip.  Good idea on the silicon gel.  

[Wareham]

Thank you.  I especially appreciated the background and the suggestions for making them work.

Again, thanks.

John