DEAD - $5 Rosewill 2.5" SSD / HDD Mounting Kit for 3.5" Drive Bay with Fan @ Newegg, free shipping

Quote from bsg75 : there's no good reason to put a 2.5" HDD in a desktop.

Uses less power, produces less heat, is quieter and more disks can be fit in less space.

an ssd doesn't need a fan. This is just a noise maker.

I actually might have use for this. I plan to upgrade my 200GB laptop HDD to a SDD when the right deal comes along, then place the 2.5" laptop HDD as an extra storage drive in my HTPC.

Would I need a fan for the 2.5" laptop HDD? This will be going in a grandia gd05 case.

Edit: This is a 5400rpm HDD

definitively a great deal

Quote from KITHPOM : Uses less power, produces less heat, is quieter and more disks can be fit in less space.

And to continue using all the perfectly good laptop HDD's that are being replaced by SSD's.

http://www.amazon.com/Sata-Ide-Ss...155&sr=8-2

holds 2 drive

plus $5 rebate

http://http://www.icydock.com/pro...php?id=265

icy dock has a lot of choices for mounting drives....this is the least expensive


info from newegg

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Pro...6817994087

If you already got fans blowing at your hard drives, I don't know if this is really necessary. I've got 2 x 120mm front fans drawing air for the hard drives.

Why is a fan necessary when SSDs generate almost no heat?

What is this? Does it take 2.5" laptop drive than put it on a desktop format?

a fan is useless to a SSD.

Used credit cards will works well as a mounting bracket.

Quote from xecutionkrk : What is this? Does it take 2.5" laptop drive than put it on a desktop format?

Thank you for all the TUs and reps!

I feel the concern about the fan being seemingly superfluous and about desktops not being the place for laptop-sized hard drives. Here is my educated guess:

• I think the idea behind the fan is to cool *other* hard drives you may have in the neighboring bays. Plus, you don't even have to connect it, if there is no need.

• You would normally NOT put laptops hard drives into a desktop unless you are short on HDD bays - like in a small-case HTPC or media server use. I know Dell has plenty of systems and form factors where the only way to put more than one HDD is to have a 2x2.5"-to-3.5" bracket like this one.

Quote from KITHPOM : Uses less power, produces less heat, is quieter and more disks can be fit in less space.

well, if you use this HDD mounting kit, it will take up just as much space. And if you get those 3.5" green drive, it use less power and less heat also.
If you are replacing your laptop drive so you have extra 2.5" HDD, it is better to use 2.5" HDD drive as external drive than this since they are smaller and easier to carry.

The fan itself might draw more power and create more heat than the SSD itself. This is just a very wrong implementation of fan technology.. lol.

SSD mounting brackets can come as simple as the ones that comes with OCZ Vertex'es and should serve perfectly as a mounting bracket. Also, they should not cost more than $1 dollar since it is just a sheet of metal that has 8 holes in it.

Trying to complicate things to solve simple problems is plain wrong. Why would you use calculus to solve 1+1?

If you are justifying yourself to buy this because of the fan, remember than some 120mm fans (4x the area of this 60mm) are as low as $5... 60mm are of course cheaper. This deal is not a worth FP or even a TU at all.

Here's a picture of very simple bracket that should last forever, until we change the 3.5" to 2.5" standard.
http://www.ocztechnology.com/imag...cluded.jpg

Quote from max1001 : Rubber band will not work long term, duct tape on the other hand does.

Duct tape won't hold up long term either. The adhesive gets "gooey" and leaves a mess after a while. My SSD is mounted with packing tape.