# Hard Drive Installation Advice **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Tags:** computer-hardware\ **Created:** [August 31, 2025, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-drive-installation-advice/1022629 "2025-08-31T15:41:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 21
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-drive-installation-advice/1022629/21 "2025-09-01T05:05:39Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > What motherboard did you get? The case is large enough to house a Max-ATX mobo, and AFAIK only the tiniest mini-ITX motherboards have a single M.2 slot. You’re right, there should be a second slot present. But again, the amount of drive space isn’t really the issue; I just happen to have this perfectly fine additional 1TB drive at hand, so I thought I might as well use it for secondary storage, and there’s some data on it I still want access to. > [@moes\_lotion](#): > > With the case cover off, I used a couple of books to make a platform for the HDD drive beside the tower, connected the power and sata cables to it and transferred the data, then did the same for the second one. Right now, it looks like either doing something like that as a on-off, or chucking it into an external case of some sort for infrequently used ‘cold storage’ might be my best bet. > [@LSLGuy](#): > > It probably works for you on your devices because you’re logged into your account at imgbb on all those devices. I don’t have an ImgBB account—never needed one for my infrequent uploads before. Also, I tried on devices which don’t have any connection to my google profile and whatnot (work PC), from private tabs, from behind a VPN, and none of those presented an issue. Plus, several people can see the pictures. I’ve opened a [test thread in ATMB](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-see-these-images/1022643) to find out what’s going on. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-drive-installation-advice/1022629)._