when we had to upgrade the storage in our dell r510 server earlier this year i decided to go with kingston dc 500 ssds they've got a killer warranty and the specs make it clear that they're going to breathe new life into this old machine i ran some fio tests and the performance increase that those bring over the old spinning drives is insane i mean the random read iops alone 180 times faster so it was time to install them and i bought eight 2.5 inch to 3.5 inch adapters that'll match up nicely with the server's backplane since the dell trays only support 3.5 inch drives firing up the server with the ssds and all appears to work great but all the drives are flashing in amber light i asked mark from kingston if this was a concern well with dell where did you get the drive sled wait a minute so you're telling me these fancy expensive drive adapters or what's causing this it's the drive sled the drive set has a chipset on it all right let's try a different approach then commander muffet posted thing 1830990 to thingiverse which looks promising i've got the link in the description below let's give it a shot [Music] success the kingston dc 500s connected directly to the backplane using 3d printed adapters did the trick this is another testament to the cost savings of owning a 3d printer now i paid 16 dollars each for these the ones i printed myself these worked better and now while i used expensive pla plus filament which costs 40 per kilogram each tray adapter which is 14 grams uh price that prices it at only 56 cents each so the material cost being 56 cents i saved 15 and 44 cents per tray adapter that's a grand total of 123.52 saved to print eight adapters myself if i did that just two more times i've already offset the upfront expense of buying my 3d printer in savings alone hey thanks for watching remember to subscribe to us on youtube give this video a like and click that bell to be notified when we release new videos check us out on patreon for exclusive behind the scenes and early access to our videos and i'll catch you next time you