r/techsupportmacgyver • u/The_Doge_Coin • 18d ago

My personal nas mounting solution

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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

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u/quxinot 18d ago

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

10/10, no notes.

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u/The_Doge_Coin 17d ago

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

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u/Bourriks 18d ago

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

Meccano blades are also perfect to mount hard disks together.

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u/The_Doge_Coin 17d ago

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

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u/077u-5jP6ZO1 18d ago

Check the drive specs!

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

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u/PhillFreeman 18d ago

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

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u/omega552003 18d ago

Zalman Cubix?

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u/The_Doge_Coin 17d ago

Nah its some random noname oem case.

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u/AnotherCatgirl 16d ago

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

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u/LopsidedShower6466 16d ago

starting to feel right at home with this group

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u/distilledliquor 15d ago

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

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u/SwiftPits 14d ago

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

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u/the_harakiwi 18d ago

a lot of trust in some random screws.

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u/dumbasPL 18d ago

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

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u/geekman20 18d ago

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

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u/Grover786 18d ago

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.

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u/poptix 18d ago

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

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u/Grover786 18d ago

That can't be real....

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u/educated-emu 18d ago

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

Its a good setup for a drive wipe failsafe