My personal nas mounting solution

[u/The_Doge_Coin]

It ain’t stupid if it works right? By the way it is a 3 TB drive, I’m gonna go broke if the 2 screws fail

[u/quxinot]

I'm shocked and horrified that I didn't think of that years ago.

10/10, no notes.

[u/The_Doge_Coin → u/quxinot]

It’s even better when you think about it cause if it fails it’ll fall into the other drive

[u/Bourriks]

It won't fall, if your screws are the god size.

Meccano blades are also perfect to mount hard disks together.

[u/The_Doge_Coin → u/Bourriks]

Wait thats actually genius, I’ll post a update with some better mounting

[u/077u-5jP6ZO1]

Check the drive specs!

Mechanical drives have preferred directions to be mounted, so that they do not have to move their heads against gravity.

[u/PhillFreeman]

What about that 2TB drive just sitting on the bottom of the case with zero airflow?

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[u/omega552003]

Zalman Cubix?

[u/The_Doge_Coin → u/omega552003]

Nah its some random noname oem case.

[u/AnotherCatgirl]

yes, I too did put screws into the case to install hard drives where they do not belong.

[u/LopsidedShower6466]

starting to feel right at home with this group

[u/distilledliquor]

Attaching HDDs on the fan slot is one of the best way to save a space if you're using AIO cooler
There are 120mm brackets to do this

[u/SwiftPits]

Great solution but this is not good for your hard drive health. Hard drives like to be on a rubber mount for shock and vibration absorption

[u/the_harakiwi]

a lot of trust in some random screws.

[u/dumbasPL → u/the_harakiwi]

Screws are fine, the problem is vibration that will slowly unscrew them. Lock tight fixes this though.

[u/geekman20 → u/dumbasPL]

Just make sure that you get the temporary one because there's two different kinds of it.

[u/Grover786 → u/geekman20]

For anyone who doesn't know, Blue locktight, not red. Unless you want it to stay till the heat death of the universe, then red.

[u/poptix → u/Grover786]

Unless you're buying the other brand, in which case the colors are reversed.

[u/Grover786 → u/poptix]

That can't be real....

[u/educated-emu]

Screws fail, busted drive and also other hard drive gets hammered and dies.

Its a good setup for a drive wipe failsafe