Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive screws

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

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antlists wrote:
> On 07/06/2020 10:50, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>> On 7 June 2020 09:41:16 CEST, antlists <antlists@youngman.org.uk> wrote:
>>> On 06/06/2020 20:14, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>>>> One of my old cases had plastic strips with little sticks on them
>>> that would fit into the screwholes. Those strips would then slot into
>>> the mounting points for the disks.
>>>>
>>>> No messing around with screws and really easy to swap drives. They
>>> would be perfectly mounted as well.
>>>>
>>>> Too bad I don't see the same with most other cases.
>>>
>>> I remember that. Compaqs with 75 MEGA Hz cpu's iirc.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Wol
>>
>> Not just Compaq. I think mine was a coolermaster case at the time.
>>
>> Toolless hotswap is a useful feature when regularly swapping drives.
>>
> These weren't hotswap (just ordinary IDE), but it's a damn sight
> easier putting the rails on a drive on a desk, rather than putting the
> screws in a drive in a case :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Wol
>
>


My Cooler Master HAF-932 has no screws for drives either.  It has those
plastic frames with these rubber and metal pins that take the place of
screws.  Once the frame is inserted into the drive cage, those pins
can't let go of the drive.  I might add, if the pins are inserted
properly, the plastic frame won't go into the cage either. I like the
design part but I hope the plastic part never breaks.  They ain't cheap
or easy to find at times. 

Oh, my mobo supports hot swap SATA so all are hot swappable too.  I'm
not sure if I have a IDE connector.  It might but I'm not sure. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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