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.
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.
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 to find out what’s going on.
You don’t want to leave anything dangling in the case. However, (non-M.2) SSDs are so light* that there are many ways to secure them. Even velcro or double-sided tape is sometimes used. And most are no longer metal, so you don’t have to worry about shorts.
*look at SATA M.2 drives. That’s as big as the drive needs to be. The rest is filler to make it match the space of a hard drive.
Well, especially if we’re talking about a no-kidding 1-pound sharp-cornered metal hard drive, the external case seems like the safer answer to have the storage and the data online.
For a plastic SSD, securing it to an empty spot in the chassis with velcro, tape, or zip ties would be reasonably secure. Just letting it dangle from the cables is untidy and may endanger the cabling or the connectors unless there’s ample slack, but obviously some people do it and don’t suffer any immediate consequences, so that’s a valid (albeit lazier) option.
The unrelated issue of an optical media drive isn’t going to be solved en passant with the hard disk unless you can track down an ancient multi-bay external drive enclosure (the kind that was oh so chic 30 years ago).