Cutting ssd case in half?

[ejohnson]

I have a pair of 850 evo 500gb ssds in my ncase m1 (soon to be 4). The actual ssd inside the housing is less than half the size of the 2.5 inch drive.

So I am thinking of taking the ssds to the chop saw (after removing the ssd from inside the case) and cutting them down to half the size. This could allow me to save a pretty decent amount of space in this already small case.

Anyone else do something like this?

Here is a video of someone shrinking down the ssd size to fit a very very small case.

 

[drescherjm]

I would just run it naked.

 

[ejohnson]

I would just run it naked.

I thought about doing that, but something about a green pcb just makes me not want to

 

[Nebulous]

Won't it be inside the case? You won't even see it. Run it naked.

 

[Private_Ops]

Could get you some that orange tape you often see in electronics an cover any bare spots that might short.

 

[Marstg]

i am for running it naked as well.

 

[ejohnson]

I will give naked a shot, might have to make a stacker mount for it, but should be easy with some motherboard standoffs.

 

[Nebulous]

Sounds good. Post pics!

 

[Dr.Diablo]

Could get you some that orange tape you often see in electronics an cover any bare spots that might short.

kapton tape the bits that would short and run naked

 

[daglesj]

Naked with copper heatsinks on the chips.