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   On Tue, 5/27/2025 6:18 PM, CtrlAltDel wrote:   
   > On Tue, 27 May 2025 10:11:55 -0000 (UTC), Dan Purgert wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2025-05-26, CtrlAltDel wrote:   
   >>> I wanted to come back and update everyone on what options I chose. To   
   >>> help save Mother Earth and to create no more waste and to purchase no   
   >>> more clutter from capitalists to foul up our air and water, my   
   >>> brother-in-law gave me some of his old SSD's he was no longer using.   
   >>   
   >> Here's hoping they weren't abused too much, and they last a while.   
   >   
   > My niece had glued the feet of a barbie doll to one of them and was using   
   > it as a stand for the doll. I just scraped the glue off with a pocket   
   > knife and it seems to work fine.   
   >   
   > The other one, she had used finger nail polish to paint flowers and grass   
   > on, but I just used some polish remover to get all that off with and it   
   > seems okay too.   
   >   
   > She's only 10 years old and I could tell she was a little upset I was   
   > taking her toys away.  To compensate for that, I told her I would whittle   
   > her some wood sticks so she could build a little house for her pet   
   > hamster.   
   >   
      
   If this is a problem, remember that the metal cases unscrew. and inside   
   is an autonomous PCB that works without the case being present.   
      
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   If operating the PCB without the covers on it, you would need to be   
   careful that any active circuitry does not touch a chassis ground. That   
   means using the tiny cable ties, the nylon ones and arranging the SSD   
   PCB so it does not touch anything. a lot of cases, just don't have   
   the convenient mount-points to do that.   
      
   Some SSDs have plastic bodies.   
      
   Some are metal (and the metal is at ground potential).   
      
   The metal ones made from a sheet steel, some of those scratch   
   very easily and can be cosmetically damaged such that the store   
   won't accept them as a return (open box) item unless they are   
   in mint-condition. Such drives are to be avoided, from a warranty or   
   return perspective, because they scratch way too easily. If you   
   screw one of those drives into the laptop metal tray, that scratches   
   up the paint too.   
      
   On some, the screws are in obvious locations and one   
   of the screws is covered with an anti-tamper sticker (Intel).   
   On others, it's possible the generous-sized label covers the screw   
   that holds the two case halves together.   
      
      Paul   
      
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