Worried about shorting out 2.5" drives with circuit board facing metal casing?

[themaidenmaniac]

Hi guys

I have 2.5" laptop drives im planning to locate in my Fractal Node 304 case. The problem is, the enclosure that holds the drives i'm a little worried about.

It's designed for 3.5" hdd and 2.5" SSD, obviously mounting ssd direct on metal is no problem, however i'm a bit worried about screwing 2.5" hdd circuit boards down onto
bare metal.

Was wondering, do you guys know of a cheap work around for this e.g. shielding tape? Or maybe i'm being paranoid! Doesnt seem to make much sense to me leaving the bottom of a drive bare, but im sure there's a reason why manufacturers do it. Cheers!

[kalniel]

I don't get it. That might be the wine, or it might be that I think that if there was any issue with drives needing to be isolated from a zero-current case they'd come with insulation. Laptops don't isolate their hard drives any more than desktops do.

[themaidenmaniac]

The main reason I thoguht i'd ask, its bringing back thoughts of when i made my first pc build over 10 years ago and mounted the motherboard direct to the case without the ground posts. The thing shorted out like a beast haha.

[Bonebreaker777]

The main reason I thoguht i'd ask, its bringing back thoughts of when i made my first pc build over 10 years ago and mounted the motherboard direct to the case without the ground posts. The thing shorted out like a beast haha.

Mobos come with distance screws (or what they are called) but HDDs doesn't even if the 2.5" HDD have bare PCBs underneath but still no parts. Imagine 2.5" SAS server HDDs with uncovered PCBs PLUS ICs facing outwards. . .