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Out of hard drive bays. Anything stopping me from just velcroing the SSD somewhere?

NickTheMajin
By NickTheMajin
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no, most people do that already.

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do et foooget

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Nope SSD's dont have any moving parts, so if you wanted to you could literally just throw a pile of them in the bottom of your case if you felt like it. Heat might be an issue in that case, but it would be relatively safe.

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I ran out of drive bays in my home server, so my OS SSD is being held to the case by a cable management "spring" piece of metal. No issues almost a year later! haha

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I assume no moving parts etc etc. would anything bad come of using zip ties or just Velcro?

 

Hey nickTheMajin,
 
I was going to make a Shia LaBeouf motivation joke but... yes, you can do it, but I'd be careful not to prevent proper airflow around the drive. Taping the drive might result in increasing the temperature that it's working at so I'd monitor itjust to be on the safe side. :) Other than that you shouldn't worry about the position that the drive will be in.
 
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