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Plextor m5P again...

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paulobao

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Hello,

another stupid question but here it is: my laptop hdd is 9.5 mm thick and my new Plextor M5P (will arrive the after tomorrow!) it is only 7mm!
I cannot find the manuals for any plextor ssd so, maybe someone could tell me how to solve that "problem"! Could I install it like that and leave the 2.5 mm gap in the hdd bay?

I want to be ready when it arrives 🙂

Cheers,
paulo
 
Is your HDD screwed in to either the bay itself, or a caddy? If so, you'll be fine.

If not, such that it could flop around (rare), since there aren't moving parts, padding the space with a mostly inert material, like thin foam or cardboard, would not hurt anything.
 
Thanks! It is a toshiba tecra r840! The hdd it is not screwed just seats in the bay (for what I saw at youtube...I did not took a look for mine, but it will be the same!)
 
Yeah, I just checked out a Youtube video. It appears to use a cable for the SATA, so perfect positioning won't even be necessary. Just find something firm, but not hard, to fill in the gap, and tape whatever it ends up being to the inside of the plastic cover piece that you remove to install the drive. Not the perfect professional solution, but it will get the job done, and be nicer than just letting it flop around.

Edit: come to think of it, you could do a really nice job. If you can get some foam mounting feet from the hardware store, that are a bit thicker, and place several so that they will gently push on the drive, that would work great, and not be a hack job. A craft store might also have suitable foam to cut to size. I have some from a project ages ago, that I think I got from Ace, that measure right about 4mm thick uncompressed, and are pretty squishy.
 
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Thanks again!
Do you think that an insulation type material like foam will not hurt the heat dissipation from the ssd?
I live in portugal, a cork country! I could use it too, but cork is a great insulation material!

paulo
 
No, that shouldn't matter. It only dissipates a few Watts, and there isn't any direct cooling to be had, anyway. If you can get a sheet of the right thickness, that aught to work well. I'd be more worried about a sheet that's too thick causing flexing of PCBs in the drive (if uneven pressure) or the notebook itself, than I would be about cooling.
 
You do not need to make the spacer the same size as the SSD. You could just tape a "ring" around the outside edge of the SSD, or even just put 4 squares of spacers on the corners of the SSD.
 
Thanks 🙂
I saw that Kingston V200 is packed with an adhesive "ring" which is a great idea!
I hope not to use any material that could send "dirt" particles to the inside of laptop :-(

paulo
 
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