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

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Emma : i9 9900K @5.1Ghz - Gigabyte AORUS 1080Ti - Gigabyte AORUS Z370 Gaming 5 - G. Skill Ripjaws V 32GB 3200CL16 - 750 EVO 512GB + 2x 860 EVO 1TB (RAID0) - EVGA SuperNova 650 P2 - Thermaltake Water 3.0 Ultimate 360mm - Fractal Design Define R6 - TP-Link AC1900 PCIe Wifi AMD Ryzen 7 3700X • Noctua NH-U12A • ASUS STRIX X570-F • Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 3200MHz CL16 • GIGABYTE Nvidia GTX1080 G1 • FRACTAL DESIGN Define C w/ blue Meshify C front • Corsair RM750x (2018) • OS: Kingston KC2000 1TB GAMES: Intel 660p 1TB DATA: Seagate Desktop 2TB • Acer Predator X34P 34" 3440x1440p 120 Hz IPS curved Ultrawide • Corsair STRAFE RGB Cherry MX Brown • Logitech G502 HERO / Logitech MX Master 3 So there’s a non-zero chance that there might be a screw that could fit an M.2 standoff in your collection. Now, sometimes, we just have to wing it and find a way to make it work. You’re missing that M.2 screw but you still want to finish setting up your PC now, and not in 3 days when the new screw arrives, right?

Get some actual M.2 screws and do it right. But in the meantime… Look for Old Small Screws in Your Home Screwing it in is just a precaution to make sure that the drive doesn’t get dislodged if you accidentally bump into your PC or something. You don't really need screws for it, just make sure it's not flopping around all over the place and you should be fine. 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.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.

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? Some motherboards don’t have standoffs. Some do, and you need to install them. Some come with them pre-installed. And so on. 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. If you just want to make sure the drive stays where you put it and want something that’s lowkey. This is an option.

If you’re handy at all in any way, you most likely have an assortment of screws you’ve collected over the years. 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°. It’ll have a table of contents that’ll most likely tell you where the M.2 screw is and show you what it looks like. I’ve built a multitude of Computers, Workstations and Renderfarms and love to optimize them as much as possible.

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