Review on 🔧 Rosewill 2.5 Inch SSD/HDD Plastic Mounting Kit for 3.5 Inch Drive Bay - Black, RX-C200P - Ideal for Component Installation by Tony Watts

--Selection Criteria --One of the old computers had a hard drive failure, so we wanted to buy a decent SSD drive to replace it and an SSD mounting bracket to go with it. When comparing different types of braces, it became clear that the main differences are in the material and price. I figured I'd install this mount once and not think about it for at least a few years and figured why spend the extra money when the cheapest one looks like it will work just as well as the more expensive ones. . - What was the result? Packaging and first impression. The packaging itself is a cardboard box big enough to fit in a holder. Inside was a bracket, 12 small (metal) screws and a piece of plastic which I can assume is some kind of gasket. Feeling the strut, the two inner "posts" (what do I call them?) felt thin and flimsy as shown in the picture, but thick enough to hold the fixed piece of gear in place in the fixed part of the machine keep. . The outer edges were thicker and felt more solid, as did the rest of the mount itself. What used to be rubber mounts to keep the hard drive spinning silently are also plastic and physically resemble only a rubber mount and are molded on the inside. The best I can say is that the function other than visual is to keep some air between most of the SSD and the bracket itself. -- Installation -- After aligning the SSD and the bracket, you can choose to install it either on top or bottom. I chose the bottom. Then you had the option of screwing on the side or bottom parts. Here I think people felt the problem of queues. I think you could use the included "gasket" (although I'm still not sure what the heck it is) and screw through the sides OR do what I did and screw it through the molded plastic mounts from the bottom . . And as previous reviews have reported, the plastic is unthreaded so you'll need to tighten the screws. All in all a 10 minute job from removing the case to attaching it if so. -- General Thoughts -- Function This mounting bracket is designed to hold static hardware in the PC and it does the job well. The brittleness and potential durability issues of threadless plastic are actually a personal style issue. If you change SSDs often a stronger metal bracket would certainly be better, but if you're like me and once it's done, install and forget about the work, you can't go wrong at $4.99 (now $3.99!) . If you're even remotely concerned about melting plastic and anything else, you're going to have bigger problems than just melting the mounting bracket at this temperature!