How in the world do you get a R720 to fit into rails?

I hate having to work on my R720 because getting it back into the rails is a major pain in the ass. It barely fits, so I have to wrestle with it for half an hour to get it to fit.

Is there a trick to this?

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InverseParallax@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y (4 replies)

2 person job normally, that's all.

Just a pain, one reason I almost prefer supermicro rails, but Dell is better at everything else.

minorsecond@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 3y (3 replies)

I’ll have to get my wife to help me next time.

It’s those damn pins on the side, I think. It seems like they catch.

InverseParallax@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y (2 replies)

They do, I think it's the one thing I had my wife help me with, all my other servers were easy to solo.

It just sucks, the r730 is mildly better but not really.

minorsecond@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Are the supermicro rails much easier to work with? I’m considering swapping them out if so.

InverseParallax@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

Not really, and they're not compatible.

I have these things called kingrails from an oem case that are beefy and work pretty well, and some gigabyte ones too.

Good rails are just hard to come by I guess.

brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 3y

I thought I had it locked in once and dropped the damn thing from 2ft. Luckily no damage.