spent 10 mins fiddling with the drive before I realized I needed a screw to secure it. Spent 10 mins trying progressively smaller screws. Got fed up and used two riser mounts to "secure" it. Immediately afterward while looking for a bracket, found an m.2 screw unrelated to this drive that I forgot I had.
And then of fucking course the tiny little bastard fell onto the carpet.
I no longer feel such a strong need for an m.2 drive for myself due to that stupidly tiny specific screw.
They're really not. I thought for certain they would match the tiny SSD mounting screws, but even those failed me.
Also now my two risers doesn't seem as bad of a work around.
My mobo placed my M.2 drives both under the exact spots you would put GPUs and has these massive heatsinks that go over the drives. My hw monitor still shows them as the hottest running component in my desktop.
Completely unrelated to your post but phuk it.
that seems terribly thought out. I could see this one being covered by a very large fan cooler. But the gpu shouldn't protrude that far up the board.
Oh balls man. Thats like one of those mind teaser puzzle boxes where you have to navigate a ball through a maze.
Only so so much worse.
They could at least have it a standard size where you can easily get a replacement. Whoever designed that standard deserves a slap in the face.
They're not a standard size at all, nothing else in desktops and laptops alike use that screw. Sometimes a screw comes with the device, sometimes it doesn't. It's a crapshoot and the weirdest feature of modern computers, imo.
EDIT: FWIW, I've used mounting tape to hold the pricks down.