Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday, 20 February 2022 22:53:02 GMT Miles Malone wrote: >> The standard is #6-32 UNC for 3.5" harddrives, and most case-related >> stuff including motherboard standoffs. It's M3 standard for 2.5" >> harddrives, 5.25" optical drives, etc, etc. > Useful info - thanks. > >> The lengths arent standard in general, though I imagine there's a >> fairly standard harddrive length. >> >> So you presumably want countersunk phillips head #6-32UNC screws of >> appropriate length > Countersunk - that's the operative word here, so I ended up googling for "M3 > x > 5 countersunk", taking a guess at the M3, and found a specialist supplier. > > They should arrive today, so fingers crossed. > > Thanks all. > > Once again I must apologise for polluting a software list with common > hardware. <sniff> >
I don't see this as polluting myself. It is computer related. I've asked hardware questions here quite often, even a windoze question a couple times. After all, there is some very knowledgeable people here to get help from. All of us know something someone else may not. I've even asked about hardware I should buy or avoid, CMR verses SMR hard drives for example. Although I may mention I'm cutting trees out back or planting trees on occasion, It's usually in a P. S. or something and a reason for a slow response. I don't know about others but I'm not complaining. I learned something. I learned that optical drives and hard drives are indeed different. Someone else posted the specs. That helped you but it also helps me because I'm making a note of it. Since my memory isn't great, I'm writing things down. I've accepted I can't trust my memory all the time. lol Hope the new hardware works. If possible, post and let us know what you got and if they do indeed work and with what. I may order or check the specs on what I've got. Dale :-) :-)
