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Inside of Cages with the Safety Bars Revmoved



 
 
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Old July 20th 20, 10:46 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Flasherly[_2_]
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Default Inside of Cages with the Safety Bars Revmoved


Flipped a case to its side, MB plane down and lower, of course,
whereupon the hard-drive rack is uppermost in most or many case
designs.

The idea then is to render basic storage moveability or HDD
maintenance: No sliding out of HDDs affixed with screws or accounting
lateral-plane MB component placements: In and out fast.

The six sides of a box, a PC case and HDD "cage", the siding adjacent
the HDD "rack", one of the two biggest sides, both planes, cage and
case get removed. Any HDDs may then be pulled straight up and out of
their cage seating with no obstruction.

Heavier metal shears are easiest to modify substantial metal in the
HDD rack. Cutting through the uppermost is easier than a hacksaw. Use
a file, easier yet, aluminum air-conditioning tape, to dress
potentially wickedly sharp shards of exposed metal resulting.

The final "trick": HDDs are now "dropped or yanked" with only PWR/SATA
cables attached to them. They may be propped up but the tendency is
they'll move and eventually group together, blocking or restricting
the case front 120mm fan's air flow between them.

Case thumb screws, so it happens, match threads on a HDD's six
mounting side points. (Not the larger horizontal planes. "Thumb
screws" are an instance of case screw accessory for hand-removal of a
case side, as opposed to Phillips case screws.) Straighten a stiff
wire, a paper clip for an instance, put in three thumb screws farthest
oppose the PWR/SATA connection, and tighten them down individually on
the wire while adjusting the distance for air flow between the HDDs.
The function of mounting with the missing side that was cut out is
restored.

Not pretty nor "coke bottles nor your ass on my computer proof", but
next best thing to hot-swapping directly off requisite PS connects and
MB HDD controllers. (Mines chest-height. Peachy for removing HDDs,
but getting any deeper, I need tentatively a two-foot footstool or to
pull the whole thing out of a wall of audio-visual gear and
extemporaneous music Fx amp-loops it also processes.)
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Old July 20th 20, 10:59 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Flasherly[_2_]
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Default Inside of Cages with the Safety Bars Revmoved

On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 17:46:53 -0400, Flasherly
wrote:

Oh, yea, another thing:

Hang a hand-towel around your neck for sweat until used to working
exposed in "air".
 




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