TO SCRE OR NOT TO SCREW? - do i need the HDD bay screws???

[Martino1994]

Right basically I took it into myself to add another Hard drive and well without realising, I I put it into an SSD bay, i mean it fits really snug in that bay, but the thing is none of the screw holes seem to correspond to the screw holes in the HDD. My question is this can I get away with not having the screws i mean its snug in there and its wired fine so yh what to do? I could drill but meh i dont really fancy that.

Also the drive im adding is a beast, its a 6tb 64mb cache drive.

Its called the WD green 6tb green hdd drive.

 

[OriginalCadaver]

You managed to wedge a HDD in to a SSD bay? That's impressive. Did your case come with mounting hardware? There may be brackets that you snap on the HDD then can slide them in to a 3.5 bay and lock them in place. This is pretty standard with even cheap cases now. I wouldn't be comfortable leaving an unmounted HD, plus without being properly mounted it may start vibrating and move around.

 

[Martino1994]

You managed to wedge a HDD in to a SSD bay? That's impressive. Did your case come with mounting hardware? There may be brackets that you snap on the HDD then can slide them in to a 3.5 bay and lock them in place. This is pretty standard with even cheap cases now. I wouldn't be comfortable leaving an unmounted HD, plus without being properly mounted it may start vibrating and move around.

Well im unsure i mean it has the letters SSD engraved on the side of the bay so i figured ahah

Also heres an update there is a hole but its obscured by a part of the chassis, and i just put one in i mean it looks pretty crap but it has decinitly tightened it in place as i yanked the sata cable as before it would just pull out but now i can feel its tight.

Yh im worried about not screwing it in place as it might cause damage to the drive or fall out on to my 780 ti so we dont want that.

Also i checked the box theres not mounting hardware so... It doesnt really need it.

 

[COLGeek]

Agreed, that is too expensive a device to take the chance that it could vibrate out of place and potentially be damaged.

I would re-mount in a proper HDD bay and secure it (as supported by the case in use).

 

[Martino1994]

No its tight now, i mean its screwed crudely but its in, is if worth just testing it out go feel if theres some noticeable movement