I wouldn’t stress about it. People are overly delicate with their hard drives in my experience. They’re surprisingly sturdy and failure tends to be pretty random. There might be a slight statistical correlation in failure rates with minor vibration, but anecdotally I’ve got drives that vibrate the hell out of themselves (probably due to some other manufacturing defect) and have lasted decades with no errors, and plenty that fail completely for no perceptible reason at all. Spinning disks are just inherently unreliable, not that any storage technology is perfectly reliable. This is why backups are never optional.
Comment on Using DVD slot for second 3.5" drive?
CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 2 days agoThe DVD drive should have a SATA connector already.
OP you can do this, I 3D printed a couple adapters to fit 3.5" drives into my old server case’s 5.25" slots while migrating everything to a new server. My only real concern with the whole thing is that there’s no rubber isolators on them which could cause issues longterm.
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
The number of times I’ve ran a system with a hard drive just sitting on the floor of the computer without issues…
adarza@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
the number of years i’ve run usb->sata adapters and had (up to a dozen or so) bare drives laying around and propped up anywhere i could find a spot…
tburkhol@lemmy.world 1 day ago
…hanging from their cables…
irmadlad@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
<ahem…I’ve been known to uhhh…velcro them to the case with industrial velcro. <cough cough>