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Howdy, |
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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 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 screws |
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that fit better but still not quite right. I went to ebay and typed in |
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100 hard drive screws. I want to buy a bag of them to have around when |
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I need them. It's amazing what I got for results. Some list a brand |
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they fit. Some say laptop, few mention a desktop system. Looking at |
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pics, some seem to be coarse thread, some sort of fine thread. Some |
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standard, some metric. Some are phillips head and some look like allen |
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type or star type heads. I'm sitting here wondering, is this nuts or |
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what? Pardon the pun there. It's just crazy. lol |
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Is there not a standard sized screw that should fit all 3.5" and 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 Whether they are spinning rust, SSD or the outdated |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 misleading? |
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If there is a standard or does WD take one size screw while Seagate |
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takes another and Toshiba yet another? If someone has found a size that |
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fits them all, could you please share the sizes or a link so I can have |
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something to go by? I already have a few hundred screws that don't |
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fit. I really don't need yet another 100 to add to the don't fit |
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anything pile. |
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What happened to the simple days where things would just fit like they |
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should?? ^_O |
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Thanks for any hints. |
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Dale |
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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 not |
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long ago was about $60 each. I got two for $54 with free shipping. It |
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has a temp controlled fan too. I bought other USB only enclosures that |
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wasn't worth the shipping much less the cost of the item. I think I had |
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one that worked fairly well but was really slow. Maybe it was USB2 but |
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I suspect it was defaulting to USB1. A few others failed after a short |
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time, I suspect USB issues myself. I still need to run up on a good |
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deal on a PMR type 8TB drive, designed for 24/7 use. I need to expand |
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/home. It's at 70% right now. o_O |
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