Get a load of this. I bought an m.2 SATA SSD (it was a good price...) and since my only SATA m.2 slot is shared with the PCIe 4 slot (wtf) I got an adapter card so I could connect it to a normal SATA port.
And since I like being efficient, I got a two slot adapter. m.2 drives are smaller than regular SATA! Why waste that space, I could put two drives in a spot that'd fit one. Unfortunately these kinds of adapters aren't common, and well...
And... this is the fabled 3.5" mounting plate. A fucking piece of plastic with some holes in it.
And before my computer dies, here's how they expect you to affix the adapter to their plastic piece of shit. DO YOU SEE THE PROBLEM?
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Yeah, it's WIDER THAN A 3.5" HARD DRIVE, MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE TO INSTALL IN THAT ORIENTATION.
And don't try to be clever and turn it the other way... the holes don't line up. Not only that, they *just barely* do not.
Don't worry, it gets worse. You remember hard drives are mounted? With screw holes on the side that you affix to the drive cage? THAT THIS PLASTIC SHIT LACKS?
Sure, there's also holes on the bottom of a 3.5" drive you can use to affix them. Never mind that I've only ever seen external enclosures use them.
So it DOES NOT FIT in a 3.5" drive cage like advertised, and even if you could there's be nowhere to attach it. But hey, you can still use it for "custom mounting" as the manual states, right?
No.
@onfy oh right those would be 5 1/4", I always get confused with imperial units
@onfy aaanyways they're SSDs, why not just stick them down with some tape or whatever
@noiob It's m.2, there's no casing. That would've been an ok idea if I bought a SATA drive... other than there being little space to do that in this case.
@noiob ..oh, the mounting plate? ... that could work, but I'm not sure I trust it.
@noiob Drive bays are weird since they're imperial everywhere.
2.5" = most SSDs, portable/laptop (former) HDDs
3.5" = desktop HDDs, 3.5" floppy drives, card readers
5.25" = 5.25" floppy drives (the actually floppy disks), optical drives. Usually external only.
There's also like, 1.2" microdrives, or those compactflash HDDs.
@noiob It would probably fit, other than the holes being spaced wrong. But it literally says on the product page and in the manual that it fits in a 3.5" bay. So that's a lie.