Hey, quick question that I'm too dumb to know the answer to and can't seem to find any info about anywhere.
I just got a 2.5" HDD and put it in the dedicated place in my Fractal Meshify C case. It's on the side, and there really isn't enough space for it - the drive is too thick for the panel to come back on normally. When I put the panel back on the case it pushes right up against the drive and the panel clearly isn't flush with the case.
Is this an issue? Or will the drive be fine?
The two big physical spinning hard disk threats are vibration and heat.
If it's jammed into the case, I would be worried about vibration in the frame causing vibration on the hard disk. There are some hard disk mounts where you put basically rubber grommets between the disc and the frame to absorb some of the vibration. You could put a heat pad between the hard drive and the case to both act as vibration dampener and a thermal transfer.
HDDs are great for storing stuff. All my jellyfin movies are on HDDs. No reason to go SSD for those - the HDDs give the performance I need at less cost
Okay thanks, I'll keep that in mind