Mounting new SSD "upside down"?

[RobS10]

I have a Dell Vostro 460 and am installing a SAnsung 840 Pro. Bought the 2.5"-3.5" adapter bracket, but found out it's not a straightforward install because Dell hard drive cage needs special side rails to slide the drive in. I found something that will work, but only with the "bottom" of the adapter bracket on top (open side facing down). Of course all installation photos show bracket open side up. Will it be a problem with heat build up if the open side is down? There some holes, and the SSD will not be mounted directly against the plate, but suspended from the edges.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I have a Dell Vostro 460 and am installing a SAnsung 840 Pro. Bought the 2.5"-3.5" adapter bracket, but found out it's not a straightforward install because Dell hard drive cage needs special side rails to slide the drive in. I found something that will work, but only with the "bottom" of the adapter bracket on top (open side facing down). Of course all installation photos show bracket open side up. Will it be a problem with heat build up if the open side is down? There some holes, and the SSD will not be mounted directly against the plate, but suspended from the edges.

I really don't see your problem there. The SSD isn't going to generate much heat. If installed near a "warm" HDD, it shouldn't much matter if the SSD is right-side-up, or up-side-down.

Give some attention to your case ventilation. As much as I tend to shrink from all OEM computers, the Vostro 460 doesn't seem to be much of a problem from what I can see.

 

[RobS10]

I really don't see your problem there. The SSD isn't going to generate much heat. If installed near a "warm" HDD, it shouldn't much matter if the SSD is right-side-up, or up-side-down.

Give some attention to your case ventilation. As much as I tend to shrink from all OEM computers, the Vostro 460 doesn't seem to be much of a problem from what I can see.

I'm going to mount it under the original HDD. Not worried about the drive itself upside down, but the "floor" of the new adapter bracket will be the "roof". Also, the drive is mounted sideways, across the case. The drive adapter bracket sides will block direct airflow coming from the front of the case (though it will come across above and below the drive. But if these don't generate much heat, I won't worry. The case is pretty open though... I'm clearly not an expert on case/component thermal dynamics

 

[Puffnstuff]

I have mine mounted at the top of my case mesh parallel to a radiator. With a ssd orientation is meaningless.

 

[RobS10]

I have mine mounted at the top of my case mesh parallel to a radiator. With a ssd orientation is meaningless.

Just wanted to make sure having the 2.5-3.5" adapter's mostly solid plate 1/4" above the drive wouldn't cause overheating.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Just wanted to make sure having the 2.5-3.5" adapter's mostly solid plate 1/4" above the drive wouldn't cause overheating.

We're all thinking about that. Once was a time when I had four HDDs in RAID5. Those were also the days when you were lucky to find a case that could use 140mm fans. They were also the tail-end of days when HDDs got a bit warmer than they do now.

I have two HDDs in my current system, and a single 64GB Pyro SSD which caches and accelerates the boot/system HDD. That HDD happens to be your 10,000 RPM WD Veloci-Raptor, now seeming obsolete with ANY configuration that uses an SSD (like my own.) I'm running the VR off an SATA-II port, because it won't have more throughput with SATA-III. But you can cache it with an SATA-III-configured SSD -- as I do . . .

Sometime in the next few weeks, I'm planning to dump the VR as a boot drive (and its SSD caching drive) -- altogether. These SSDs use a fraction of HDD wattage. I'm not even sure if they get warm to the touch.