[GH85Carrera]

Golly, fun with computers.......

My old computer was gutted yesterday, and today I was going to spend "a few minutes" putting the 5 drives in for the RAID5 that goes to my partners house. 1/2 a day latter, it is done.

Why in the ever loving (expletives deleted) can't things be easy. The first 3.5 inch format drives that hit the market 36 years ago had the mounting screws in the same place as most drives made today. BUT, the 10 TB drives I bought for the RAID only have two screw holes. And of COURSE they are in different places that my hard drive rails have. Grumble grumble. Who oh why? I guess they saved .001 cents by not drilling that hole on the drives that are 10TB.

So, off to the garage, set up the drill press and the clamp that holds the pieces to be drilled and dig out a 0.1495 diameter bit., (just over 9/64th) and drill new holes in the plastic rails in just the right spot. Of course the perfect spot is just where the clip that holds things in position is. So dig through my collection of computer screws and find screws of the right size head and threads to hold the rails in place, and the head of the screw is now the part that holds things in place.

It only took a few hours to get everything drilled, and installed in the computer. Next step is fire it up, and set up the RAID. Oh joy.