OEM HDD/SSD Bracket for Dell OptiPlex 3040 5040 7040 MT & Inspiron Vostro 3600 3650 - 2.5" Hard Drive Bay Caddy (Model X9FV3) - Perfect for PC Upgrades & Data Storage Solutions

OK, it doesn't say it will work with 5880, manufacturer says in questions it will fit any 2.5" bay. It will not. Engineer here who can't make it fit with a drive or without a drive in a Dell Vostro 5880. Both fail to properly fit into the disk cage. I ended up getting it far enough and cutting the ends off the blue "handles" you'd use to remove it so I could close the case. It is a kludge but will work. Without a disk drive the caddy will slide in further but will not latch into place. Best other review I saw says "shame on dell". I agree. This is crap design likely trying to sell more Dell drive caddies ? or just lazy and they could care less about us a customers. You can make this work but it is not ideal. It is better than leaving the SSD lose and using the cabling to hold it in place. YMMV.As we all know, Dell likes to make their PCs proprietary. One of the ways is to make their 2.5" bays non-standard. This drive mount fits my 2.5" SSD drive and the mount fit the proprietary cage. The problem was that it is way to tall for the Vostro. it sticks up so far that the cover would not fit. I ended up cutting the top arms, just below the curve, and it worked. Not clean, but works. I did not find a mount for the Vostro.Interesting adapter which you have to bend in order to provide enough space for the smooth, metal "prongs" on the adapter to gently snap into the screw holes on a 2.5" drive.No instructions come with the adapter, so you have to look at your cabling and figure the best way to place your hard drive in the adapter, and then the adapter into the metal drive bay so everything fits properly. The adapter is a nice, snug fit in the drive bay, and that means the drive will be a nice, snug fit as well.Price is a bit higher than I would have hoped, but you get a product that doesn't require any tools and can't come loose.I had to experiment with the correct alignment of parts, so the adapter was bent and the drive inserted and removed 3 times. Everything was fine, but I was careful to bend it "just enough", and I don't know if it could be bent a couple of dozen times without problems.OK, I took a shot...bought this to try and fit in my XPS 8940. It WILL slide into the 2.5 bay empty but will not snap into locked position. With a drive installed it doesn't even push all the way in enough to close the case.I suppose you could Dremel it to fit.Shame on Dell to not pre-fit 2 of the proper carriers - both bays are pre-wired for SATA power and there is an extra SATA data channel available - or offer the proper XPS 8940 2.5 drive carrier to consumers.Perfect fitment.Not the right item.This was a perfect fit in my Dell Inspiron 3668. Dell should be ashamed of themselves for claiming the machine will hold 2 additional 2.5-inch drives, but not including the required caddies. Some have noted these include no instructions, but the service manual for the computer available from Dell shows exactly how they are used and it is really not hard to figure it out anyhow.Wasn't exact fit for my Dell XPS 8940 (I ordered wrong version), but with a little retrofitting I was able to securely insert a 2.5 in drive using the caddy. Product is high quality.Wasn't able to properly insert in my DELL XPS 8940 with the single caddy the PC came with as (1) the connecting wires between the provided 15-pin ports were not wide enough to allow both caddies to lock into place and (2) the blue gripping handles of this caddy are too long to allow the PC case to close after install.By breaking off the handles of this caddy and using it in the lower 2.5" slot, I was able to insert the second (dell-provided) caddy in the upper slot (downside being that the dell-provided caddy can't slide far enough into the casement to lock into place.)I Just purchased a 2nd caddy so that i can replace the dell provided caddy so that both SSDs are secure.My suggestion to Dell XPS 8940 users looking for a second caddy is to buy *two* of these and replace the original caddy entirely; you may have to break the insertion handles, but that way both your SSDs are secure and locked in place.