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Were you thinking about this? https://xkcd.com/927/ |
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On 2020.06.05 22:24, William Kenworthy wrote: |
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> No, there are a lot of different sizes used across brands - and there |
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> are metric and imperial threads which is likely the cause of your |
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> almost |
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> fitting ones. |
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> What standard? - if don't like it, wait a few minutes and another will |
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> come along ... |
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> :) |
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> BillK |
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> On 6/6/20 10:06 am, Dale wrote: |
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> > Howdy, |
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> > |
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> > I know this sounds like a silly question and I never thought I would |
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> > have to ask such a basic question like this. I bought a external |
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> hard |
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> > drive enclosure and was trying to install a hard drive I had laying |
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> > around. The screws that come with the enclosure doesn't fit. The |
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> > screws have a coarse thread and it seems the drive case has fine |
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> > threads. It's the only screws that come with it so it has to be for |
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> > that purpose. Anyway, I dug around my screw bin and found a few |
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> > screws that fit better but still not quite right. I went to ebay |
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> and |
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> > typed in 100 hard drive screws. I want to buy a bag of them to have |
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> > around when I need them. It's amazing what I got for results. Some |
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> > list a brand they fit. Some say laptop, few mention a desktop |
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> > system. Looking at pics, some seem to be coarse thread, some sort |
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> of |
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> > fine thread. Some standard, some metric. Some are phillips head |
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> and |
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> > some look like allen type or star type heads. I'm sitting here |
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> > wondering, is this nuts or what? Pardon the pun there. It's just |
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> > crazy. lol |
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> > |
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> > Is there not a standard sized screw that should fit all 3.5" and |
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> even |
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> > 2.5" drives?? Whether they are spinning rust, SSD or the outdated |
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> > floppy drives. Are they THAT different or are the pictures |
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> > misleading? If there is a standard or does WD take one size screw |
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> > while Seagate takes another and Toshiba yet another? If someone has |
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> > found a size that fits them all, could you please share the sizes |
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> or a |
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> > link so I can have something to go by? I already have a few hundred |
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> > screws that don't fit. I really don't need yet another 100 to add |
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> to |
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> > the don't fit anything pile. |
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> > |
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> > What happened to the simple days where things would just fit like |
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> they |
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> > should?? ^_O |
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> > |
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> > Thanks for any hints. |
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> > |
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> > Dale |
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> > |
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> > :-) :-) |
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> > |
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> > P. S. The enclosure I got is a eSATA or USB type. I use the eSATA |
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> > connector. Found it on Amazon and it's a Rosewill. The enclosure |
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> not |
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> > long ago was about $60 each. I got two for $54 with free shipping. |
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> > It has a temp controlled fan too. I bought other USB only |
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> enclosures |
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> > that wasn't worth the shipping much less the cost of the item. I |
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> > think I had one that worked fairly well but was really slow. Maybe |
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> it |
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> > was USB2 but I suspect it was defaulting to USB1. A few others |
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> failed |
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> > after a short time, I suspect USB issues myself. I still need to |
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> run |
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> > up on a good deal on a PMR type 8TB drive, designed for 24/7 use. I |
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> > need to expand /home. It's at 70% right now. o_O |
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