Review on Icy Dock Tool-Less Drive Adapter Converter Bracket Mounting Frame Tray for 2.5 Inch HDD/SSD with SATA III Interface - EZConvert MB882SP-1S-1B by Richard Marriott

This was an easy way to fit a 2.5" drive into a 3.5" bay without worrying about airflow issues (small drive doesn't offer enough resistance, feared it will affect airflow through hotter 3.5" drives). It still allows a bit more airflow compared to a 3.5" drive in the same bay, but it's not as bad as leaving the bay with just a bare 2.5" drive. He took off a star because I'm concerned about the metal spring that supposedly holds the disc. I put the disc in one to see if it fit and immediately took it out. In just a minute or so the label on the disc was dented right where the spring was resting on the top of the disc. This worries me because of the long-term metal fatigue that can result from something constantly pushing the top of the disc so hard, and did not even bother to distribute the load - just pressed on two points. I think a plastic or metal load balancer would help a lot here. Luckily I'm going to use them "flat" so I don't need that spring to hold my discs in place (the plastic interface connector doesn't need that spring nor the rod that the spring pivots on), so I have I remove the offending spring. They now hold my drives in place by pressing them against the internal connector (they are held horizontally by gravity - I would use something else that doesn't put additional point loads on the top of the drive to hold them when I use it would put them on the side) and I have an easy way to deal with drives used in an existing hot-swap backplane that has numerous 3.5" drives.