It’s incredible that we’ve gotten to a place where basically any PC component is plug-n-play ready yet we still haven’t determined who is responsible for including the screw for m.2 drives.
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my hot take is that we should get a shitton of spare screws with everything. my case came with a baggie of like 200 screws in various sizes when i built- thaaaats the shit
THANK YOU. My latest build that I was giving to a friend they weren’t included in the case, motherboard, or ssd!!!! Where am I supposed to get the screws!!!!
The screw is not used for grounding. The pin header has multiple ground contacts for the board. The screw hole does have ground contact to ground the screw through the pin header because the screw is metal and grounding will prevent it from becoming energized.
Wow when worlds collide. I haven’t built anything larger than a Raspberry Pi for years. Amazing to think nothing has changed mechanically. They should take a page out of RepRap 3D printers, where everything is pretty much put together with m3 nuts and bolts
Ah yes the barley visible shortest screw ever that you have to try and hold in place whilst trying to screw it into a barely accessible area of the motherboard whilst simultaneously pushing down the drive so it takes in the hole. Why is this even a screw a clip like for RAM would be better.
They already come with the box of motherboard and hard drive screws, its the most sensible place to put 3 of them. It's the motherboard guys job to have a little latch or some other tool less gimmick so the screw isn't needed.
It's not possible on some motherboards, but if you can find something like an unused screw hole, then you can push the zip tie through the hole and around the side of the board to apply pressure to the SSD. Obviously very janky and not recommended.
Annoying isn't it. In the old days we got the screw for the backplane on a PC and usually a couple of extra jumpers for times when you might need one. I still have a box of those somewhere.
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I ordered a bag of them on Amazon.
When I built my PC I had no idea what an NVME ssd is.
Yours has a screw??
Is that a Swedish thing?