Bad design
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| Grishnakh Oct 25, 2011 7:27 PM EDT |
Aside from the Windows-only driver problem, that hybrid PCIe drive looks like a terrible design: where's the mechanical support? A 3.5" drive is not a lightweight item, and there doesn't appear to be any kind of mechanical support for the thing, as they mounted the drive on the opposite end from the mounting bracket. So the entire weight of the drive will be hanging off the PCIe slot. This probably isn't a problem in a horizontal, desktop case, or perhaps a 4U server chassis, but I haven't seen a "desktop" case in at least 10 years now, if not 15, since towers took over. In a tower case, the PCIe slots are sideways, so any cards plugged into them are horizontal. So this drive will be putting a large torque onto that tiny PCIe x4 connector, which it certainly wasn't designed for. It might have been workable if they had mounted the drive right next to the mounting bracket, but they didn't. And with a Windows 7 driver, what good is it going to be when Windows 8 comes out? What guarantee do you have that the mfgr will bother to make a Win8 driver for what will be older models when Win8 arrives? This is why buying Windows-only stuff is a bad idea. Tons and tons of perfectly good hardware have been thrown in the trash because mfgrs didn't bother to supply drivers for newer Windows versions. |
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