On 6/7/20 5:24 PM, Dale wrote:
antlists wrote:
On 07/06/2020 10:50, J. Roeleveld wrote:
On 7 June 2020 09:41:16 CEST, antlists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> wrote:
On 06/06/2020 20:14, J. Roeleveld wrote:
One of my old cases had plastic strips with little sticks on them
that would fit into the screwholes. Those strips would then slot into
the mounting points for the disks.
No messing around with screws and really easy to swap drives. They
would be perfectly mounted as well.
Too bad I don't see the same with most other cases.
I remember that. Compaqs with 75 MEGA Hz cpu's iirc.
Cheers,
Wol
Not just Compaq. I think mine was a coolermaster case at the time.
Toolless hotswap is a useful feature when regularly swapping drives.
These weren't hotswap (just ordinary IDE), but it's a damn sight
easier putting the rails on a drive on a desk, rather than putting the
screws in a drive in a case :-)
Cheers,
Wol
My Cooler Master HAF-932 has no screws for drives either.� It has those
plastic frames with these rubber and metal pins that take the place of
screws.� Once the frame is inserted into the drive cage, those pins
can't let go of the drive.� I might add, if the pins are inserted
properly, the plastic frame won't go into the cage either. I like the
design part but I hope the plastic part never breaks. They ain't cheap
or easy to find at times.
Oh, my mobo supports hot swap SATA so all are hot swappable too. I'm not
sure if I have a IDE connector.� It might but I'm not sure.
Dale
:-)� :-)
Dale,
It's a bit late now, but here goes. When I spend money, I always request
the entire box of parts, for the mobo, drives, gpu cards, etc etc. Most
vendors will talk to direct, over email, chat etc. I then have plastic
organizer boxes with dozens or more small compartments and lids to these
boxes. So I save all sorts of screws, from 30 years back to now, always.
It's a bit of an extreme, but as an avid hardware hacker, I use those
collections, almost weekly to fix/enhance mounts, cases, antennas and
all sorts of custom rigs.......
Also, you can find collections of such for less than $50 on the net.
Great to have, but I have over 1,000 sq. ft. or more of all sorts of new
and old hardware I've collected up over the decades. Skycraft in Orlando
is just one of many great places to purchase inexpensive excess hardware.
https://skycraftsurplus.com/
Also, local computer shops will sell you hordes of excess screws and
such; just talk to them. When you are spending money, it is real easy to
collect up excess screws and such from most vendors, for next to nothing.
But then, I hardware hack of hundreds/thousands of different hardware
systems.
hth,
James
