SSD drive without a shell.

[ahenkel]

I found an Intel 80gb G2 ssd for dirt cheap only 135.00. The problem its the board only. No enclosure. Am I running a risk buying a boardless drive? I have a few bad 2.5" hdd I could try and frankenstein and enclosure with.

 

[TemjinGold]

If you need to ask, you probably shouldn't risk it.

 

[jaydeee]

how about testing it and see if its working...
doing some save and delete may also help on your test.

its very tempting hehehe!

 

[Old Hippie]

The problem its the board only. No enclosure

I just gotta ask....how/why did this happen?

I'd offer 100.00. Afterall it's got no warranty.

 

[jjmIII]

135? Very soon a NEW one will be $135...

 

[Voo]

Well if the board wasn't harmed somehow it should work - flash chips are rather hard to kill, but the pcb is a different thing. If it works when you get it, I think you should be fine (keep dusk off it though).

But the G3s are coming soon and those should be a good bit cheaper than current SSDs, so I'm not sure I'd bother.

 

[ahenkel]

Thanks for most of the replies. I can't test it as I don't own it yet. I'm not sure how it happened. I wanted to see if it was worth pursuing before contacting the seller, but it seems because newer drives are dropping soon it may not be worth.

 

[Obsoleet]

I wouldn't bother with that. Too many unanswered questions. Why it doesn't have a case, why the other guy didn't put it in something and sell it then. I'd wait for the G3s or find a slightly less used G2.

 

[RU482]

135? Very soon a NEW one will be $135...

"very" might be an overstatement. my thought is why not get a new 64GB drive? There's been tons of AR deals around $70-90 recently.

 

[TemjinGold]

OP: If you're really tempted, I wouldn't pay more than $60-70 for that condition.

 

[adamantinepiggy]

I can't speak to your particular deal, but an normal SSD without the 2.5" case/shell will work perfectly fine. If you are worrying about grounding it out against anything in operation, a quick wrap with some electrical tape will prevent that from happening. No it aint as pretty, but it works perfectly OK. In our R&D department, rarely do SSD's keep a case/shell on for any length of time since we are always testing them and need to get to the electrical contact/test points frequently.

Without the case/shell, you can still use 2.5" hot swap bays, but you have to be careful aligning them and sliding them onto the SATA port. Also the auto-eject-when-you-open-the-door feature on many of these hot-swap bays wont work. you have to grab the edge and yank them out manually. But again, there is no "operational" issues, just form factor.

They actually run cooler without the case, not that it matters any..