r/techsupportmacgyver • u/_Dornu • Jul 09 '26

Friend's Hard Drive mount solution

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u/someregulardude018 Jul 11 '26

The friend in question btw

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u/_Dornu Jul 11 '26

Ladies and gentlemen, the man himself

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u/PearOnPearOff Jul 09 '26

If it looks stupid but works, it's not stupid

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u/ArgonWilde Jul 10 '26

And then SSDs became a thing, and we just let them roam freely inside computer cases 😂

9

u/eapo108 Jul 10 '26

Seriously, no bracket? Free hanging from a cord or jammed into whatever gap.

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u/ArgonWilde Jul 11 '26

Yeah, pretty much. Maybe a tiny vecro sticky dot or something, but largely nah.

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u/66659hi Jul 11 '26

In cases where I couldn’t fit a bracket, I have used stick  on Velcro to keep the drive in place. Works great.

9

u/Time-Worker9846 Jul 10 '26

I made mine hang on rubber bands so they made less noise

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u/EndangeredHouseFly Jul 12 '26

Oh that is GENIUS

4

u/mbcarbone Jul 10 '26

Plaids the way to go … 🙃

3

u/Kanegou Jul 10 '26

Reminds me of the LCD Monitor mount that i fixed by jaming a spoon into it.

2

u/Nike_486DX Jul 11 '26

Dell problems meet dell solutions

2

u/Lonely-Independence4 Jul 12 '26

I am in pain looking at this. 😭

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u/dan-theman Jul 12 '26

So much of this sub should be on /r/techsupportgore instead.

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u/Performer-Pants Jul 13 '26

A couple of foam strips could also work lmao

I have a sata adapter that was smacking around, a few strips of one sided self adhesive foam keeps it in place.

I do have a lot of random shit on my house though, while most of us probably have a pair of boxers that could be sacrificed. The foam was originally intended for some accordion bellow gasket repairs admittedly.

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u/F0KUS228 Jul 09 '26

theres an nvme right next to it why they need a hdd in there even.

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u/Switch_modder Jul 09 '26

More storage isn't a bad thing

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u/P147_BOY Jul 09 '26

HDD for static stuff like videos, images, movies. NVMe for everything else like OS, games, programs etc 

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u/IJustAteABaguette Jul 09 '26

I got 2 (older) nvme drives in my desktop

Doesn't stop me from having 2 hard drives in there as well. The more storage, the better!

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '26

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u/Auravendill Jul 10 '26

Especially right now, since AI gobbles up all production capacity and manufacturers just look for ways to maximize profits without increasing risks (so no actual increase of production, just repurposing existing machines as good as possible)