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Upgrade Existing Dell Poweredge r420 from 4 bay HD to 8 bay HD?

I am trying to figure out how to upgrade 2 of our existing Dell Poweredge r420s from 4 bay HDs to 8 bay HDs. Currently it is using 4 3.5 hard drives. We would like to put in 8 2.5 HDs. What chassis parts would I need to do this, and where can a source them?

I have done a bit of research (30 minutes lol), but I am not finding anything so far. Note we already have a PERC 710 in one of them and of course would need to buy another for the one that is lacking in order to properly use any kind of hardware RAID.

Thanks for the info.

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Thanks all for the feedback, it looks like this is going to be more of an quest that I expected. There doesn't seem to be kits to do this. I also just received a response from Dell and they state that these parts cannot be sourced from them, which is awesome. So, in theory I suppose it is possible to scrounge parts from different 3rd party vendors on the internet. Dark side of capitalism.