2.5" SATA & SSD Laptop Hard Drive Screws Black Zinc, 12X M3x3MM M3X3L PM3X3.0

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Just went through this and tried Blue tac – I know, I know … of course as the machine environment warms up the blue tac softens. My OS’s became unstable and then this morning the BIOS could not find the drive at all. It had sprung up and was at an angle – 31 Degrees perhaps? As this was an additional drive I used the screw from the smaller capacity drive and removed it. Miraculously no harm seems to have been done. But who knows at this stage? so my advice is to wait – you know it makes sense – until you have a proper screw. Memory: 32GB DDR4 2400 ** Power Supply: 650 Watts Power Supply Thermaltake +80 Bronze Thermaltake PSU This is certainly not recommended for any serious or long-term use, but can be done for short sessions of data copying or if your screw is arriving the next day. FAQ Do You Need a Standoff for M.2 SSDs?If you just want to make sure the drive stays where you put it and want something that’s lowkey. This is an option. So, I bought a 1TB Samsung 860 Evo and realised that my case did not come with mounting screws. Should I just slot the ssd in without screwd, since it has no moving parts? Or do i buy some screws and screw it in normally Intel Core i5 4690K, 4x8GB G.SKILL Ares 1866MHz CL10, Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 5, 128GB Team MP33, 1TB Toshiba 2.5", 160GB Momentus 5400.6 (for video capture), Zotac GTX 1070 AMP!, Enthoo Pro, EVGA 650G1, Elgato 4K60 Pro Mk.2, Windows 10 Pro So if you want to buy some screws for M.2 standoffs, what you need are M2 screws. Specifically, you want to get the following M.2 screw size: “ M2x3mm“. MacGyver it (Not Recommended)

also, the 500MB/s sequential read speed compared to the 150MB/s sequential read speed from the hard drive won't make a big difference to windows, it's the random read/write performance that's going to make the biggest difference. I’ve built a multitude of Computers, Workstations and Renderfarms and love to optimize them as much as possible. These are some tips to make it work (temporarily), but I don’t recommend doing them if at all possible, and if you do, make sure that you don’t just leave it like that. Some motherboards don’t have standoffs. Some do, and you need to install them. Some come with them pre-installed. And so on. M.2 Drives don’t really need to be screwed down flat onto the motherboard, they temporarily (!) work perfectly fine just hovering at an angle of 30°.So i bought an ssd to add some additional, cheap, and fast storage to my system. I've realized that I don't have any HDD/SSD screws available (not sure if it came with any PC components I bought) when it arrived & was wondering if I need to them at all considering that it contains no moving parts. If important, I have the S340 computer case, which thumbscrews are used to secure the SSD cage/drive bay itself. Also, I heard that you can have it sit anywhere in your computer without screws and it will still be fine as long as its not dangling, is that also true?

Just make sure you don’t destroy anything by trying to jam in a screw that’s way too big. Tape the M.2 Drive DownSo you don’t need to screw them in, but it’s such a simple and easy safety measure, there’s no point not doing it. So give it a search and see if you can find something. You probably won’t find something perfect, but even a close enough fit is fine.