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.
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.