SATA SSD w/out casing.

[Troy Bantz]

Hey guys,

 

I was wondering how many people have ever decided to run their 2.5" sata ssds without the outer shell on it and run just the pcb adhered to the case or hidden somewhere.  It halves the size needed easily and also fits into tighter spaces.

Obviously heat dissipation for the controller chip wouldn't be quite as good, but heat transfer through a cheap thermal pad to a flat aluminum or plastic housing isn't going to help a lot anyways.

As another though, anyone mod one to hold 2 different sata ssds inside of one enclosure?  that would be a feat for sure.

[AnonymousGuy]

I don't see how you would ever not be able to fit a 2.5" sata in a case somewhere.  People are mostly moving on to M.2 anyways which more importantly saves on having to run a power connector.

[SansVarnic]

Thought never crossed my mind.

[SkyHound0202]

The case provided proper mounting for the case with an existing 2.5 inch drive bracket or 3.5 with an adapter, which is standard these days. Also, a running with secured casing may be susceptible to dust and static.

The heat is not an issue for SATA controllers, it will run hot but will not be worse than current NVMe controllers which handle much higher transfer.

 

Regarding the 2 SATA in one casing: I remember seeing one of this monstrosity:

 

It's a SATA port multiplier for dual M.2 drives in a 2.5 inch drive form factor. It converts one SATA3 port to two SATA2 ports which will bottleneck a modern SSD.

Why does it exist? I don't know. Probably someone just want to fit more drives but cannot find a spare M.2 slot and has to resort to this crap.

[SalesDemon]

I used to have 1.8in ssd ( ill attach a picture) anyway i uses it an an old optiplex and on my first janky core 2 quad build it ran fine all i did was wrap one side of it in electrical tape and held it down by the cables with masking tape to make sure only thw side with electical tape made contact with anything else 

[Troy Bantz]

24 minutes ago, SalesDemon said:

I used to have 1.8in ssd ( ill attach a picture) anyway i uses it an an old optiplex and on my first janky core 2 quad build it ran fine all i did was wrap one side of it in electrical tape and held it down by the cables with masking tape to make sure only thw side with electical tape made contact with anything else 

See, something like this makes sense to me.  I know that for almost every single case out there, this shouldn't be done.  I have had to do some weird things to get things done before so this thought crossed my mind as I was working on a customers SSD for data recovery.  

 

As for that m.2 to dual sata 2 adapter that is fairly interesting.  Good for those situations where you have a bunch of old hardware laying around but the storage is to low or you don't have enough ports for your machine.  Sure, it would be bottlenecked, but Raid 0 them together and you would basically get 1 larger ssd than you had before for only the price of the adapter.

[TheRandomness]

I run my 2.5" SATA SSD caseless because it's just more convenient in my case. Also, it's wrapped in electrical tape with a small copper shim over the controller as a heat sink.