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When in doubt use the drive bay

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First post, by twiz11

Posted on 2024-02-18, 22:24

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Hey I wanted to add an additional hard drive but I only had the small laptop ones
So I screwed the drive into the CD rom tray since I didn't have any space below. Surprisingly it works well I can't move it given it only has two screws in it
Lost my bay converter years ago since holes were stripped on it

Reply 1 of 4, by gerry

Posted on 2024-02-19, 15:24

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its a good enough approach and seems stable enough as you say 😀

as other example, with SSDs i have seen them taped to the inside of the case before; they're less fragile/sensitive than HDDs.

Reply 2 of 4, by dominusprog

Posted on 2024-02-19, 15:48

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This is a mechanical hard drive, it's better to fully secure it using a 5.25 to 2.5" bracket.

https://www.amazon.com/ORICO-Aluminum-Interna … ps%2C762&sr=8-5

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Reply 3 of 4, by twiz11

Posted on 2024-02-19, 16:30

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dominusprog wrote on 2024-02-19, 15:48:

This is a mechanical hard drive, it's better to fully secure it using a 5.25 to 2.5" bracket.

https://www.amazon.com/ORICO-Aluminum-Interna … ps%2C762&sr=8-5

yea i removed it and cloned the contents onto a bigger hard drive and replaced the bay with a proper adapter. ill keep it for now for my laptop when that hdd goes

Reply 4 of 4, by twiz11

Posted on 2024-02-19, 16:31

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gerry wrote on 2024-02-19, 15:24:

its a good enough approach and seems stable enough as you say 😀

as other example, with SSDs i have seen them taped to the inside of the case before; they're less fragile/sensitive than HDDs.

ive been hesitant to get SSDs got plenty of scraped hdds from old builds

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