Dual SSD Mounting Bracket (3.5” Internal Drive Bay to 2.5", Easy Installation) Black

Purchased a new tower desktop computer (no thanks to Microsoft Windows 11 upgrade). Decided to install a SSD instead of the older Hard Drive but, of course, the new system was configured only for Hard Disk drives. This mounting bracket worked perfectly.

Picked this up because I needed a cheap way to mount a couple of SSDs in an older case, and it worked without any trouble. Installation was straightforward and everything lined up the way it was supposed to. I’ve always trusted Corsair for parts like this, and this bracket didn’t disappoint. Solid enough for what it is and got both drives secured with no issues. Perfect little upgrade for the price.

I was shopping around for Corsair mounting brackets because I wanted to swap out some old HDD hard drives for faster SSD drives. Although the bracket I bought from Corsair wasn't awful, it didn't quite fit in the sled the way I wanted it too. I have a Coolermaster Overseer case. The reason I bought this case was because I wanted it to be large enough to support bigger graphics cards and power supplies while also having room for water cooling. The Coolermaster Overseer PC case has plastic drive sleds where you can mount traditional HD's into the sled and simply slide them into your PC, quick and easy. When switching to SSD I found that these sleds were too large and none of the pins on the SSD matched up with the sled. I went shopping around for 2.5 to 3.5 brackets and didn't find anything I liked from the current marketplace. I knew this had to fit in a sled and having some cheap plastic "thermal cooling" vents for the bracket didn't make sense. I purchased this mounting bracket thinking that it was designed for adding the original corsair mounting bracket I purchased. I was wrong. Instead, this bracket is completely stand alone and supports two SSDs. I assumed that because my original corsair plate didn't fit, this bracket would be the same. Thankfully it is not! The corsair dual mounting bracket seems to be a much better product that has its own screws for mounting the SSDs. Therefore, I didn't need my old corsair bracket because this one did everything by itself. I was able to mount a WD SSD and a Samsung EVO SSD while still having enough room to connect the SATA cables. (However, I do want to note that I did need to buy power extenders and sata cable extenders because the design of my case makes it difficult to connect shorter cables.) So now I ended up with 2 spare corsair mounting plates, two for the price of one. This is a great product for cases that use 3.5 sleds. I highly recommend this one over the single drive corsair bracket. Also, these materials are made of metal and not cheap plastic.

This is my third review where I reference my dad having an HDD drive failure. I purchased this Corsair bracket to hold an SSD in the place of where a 1TB 3.5" drive was mounted. I knew that the Acer PC case would not accommodate an SSD without a bracket as the sole 3.5" bay was meant for a mechanical 3.5" drive. The Acer chassis drive bay was designed in such a manner that the old 1TB HDD was mounted using the 4 mounting screw holes on the bottom of the drive. I never saw this before. This Corsair bracket did have the necessary holes for mounting in this manner. The bracket itself had a minor issue sliding into place where the old drive was mounted. So, I had to leave a little bit of play when putting the screws into the bracket with the SSD installed into it. In my opinion, I think the bracket was a little taller than the drive it replaced or a little longer and it butted up against the Acer chassis making it a little bit of a pain. If I had to install this bracket into a regular drive bay that you would see in most aftermarket DIY cases, I do not believe there would not be any issue. So, I think this was Acer's problem, not Corsair's. Again, I did not tighten the screws down super hard, but they are still secured enough that the bracket is not going anywhere. The real nuisance was installing the SSD into the backet. The bracket holds 2 physical SSDs. I ended up placing my SSD into the top of the two available drive bays in the bracket. The bracket comes with all the screws you need to mount 2 drives along with installing the bracket into a drive bay. Which is great. I always like getting the drive and bracket mounting screws. However, when you put the SSD into the bracket, I cannot figure out how I am to put the tiny screw into a mounting screw hole on the SSD and get a screwdriver to that screw and have it not fall over. Trying to balance the bracket on its side and place a screw precariously in a hole on the SSD and then gently fish a screwdriver shaft thru the small space in the bracket to get to said screw is definitely a physical challenge that would have been something that should have been used on contestants on the old Nickelodeon game show Double Dare. Maybe I am to use a smaller screwdriver than what I had available? Maybe I am to use a magnetic tip screwdriver? I do not know. The bracket did not come with any type of installation instructions that I could find. It may be one of those things that installing screws and SSDs into this type of bracket is so obvious that it does not require documentation. I am one of those type of folks that the obvious escapes me and I need someone else to point the obvious out to me. For example, whenever I get an easy open package of chips, pretzels, frozen French fries, frozen chicken fingers, or frozen fish sticks and if those type of products are in easy open packaging and have a resealable zip lock type mechanism, I end up destroying the bag and the zip lock mechanism. For these situations if my wife nor children are not around, I just grab a pair of scissors to open these types of products and then I can't even cut the bag correctly so as to get me to the zip lock mechanism and I still end up hacking the bag to oblivion with a pair of scissors. So, this could be a twofold problem. The obvious, escaping me on how to mount SSD into the bracket and my lack of dexterity to perform the task at hand. All this aside, this is a great product for most people, and it was even a good product for me as well. If I need to mount more SSD's into 3.5" bays, I will grab another one of these brackets and watch a video on how to properly use this product going forward.

This is a well built item, feels solid, and can hold two 2.5" drives. It comes with mounting screws for your drives as well. For this part of the review, imagine the drive you want to mount is sitting on a table horizontally in front of you, one of the broad sides down on the table. If you look at the area where you connect cables, you will notice that connector is either on top (facing upward), or on the bottom (facing downward). It is important to note that the mounted orientation of drives in this bracket is with the pins facing downward in the bracket (otherwise the screws can't align through the bracket into the drive). The main way this can be a challenge is if your power/data cables come into the drive mounting area from above, you may have to put additional stress on your wires bending them to fit, attempt to re-route them through your case so they come in from underneath, or you may have to use a different wire set designed to come in from below. I wish there was a way to allow a more universal mount, so purchasers can mount their drives in the bracket with the pin orientation either (or both) up/up, down/down, or one up/one down. But in the end this bracket does what I needed it to do, which is to mount an SSD in my computer and provides room for an additional drive in the future, if needed. It works as designed, and not everyone will encounter this challenge...so it gets a 5-star from me.

I used this bracket as part of an upgrade of an older PC. I have the old OCZ Vertex 4 and new Samsung 870 EVO installed in it and the assembly is in my oldie but goodie Chieftec Dragon tower. Perfect fit all around. The only thing I would change about this product is the ridiculous manner in which they package the screws. They put 3 sets of 4 screws (2 sets for the drives and 1 set for mounting the bracket to the PC) in 3 tiny Ziploc-style bags and then they roll each bag up tightly and tape the end over. It's nigh on impossible to find the end of the tape to start pulling it off, so most people, myself included, end up having to cut the things open with scissors or utility blade. There is no reason for packing the screws like this, other than to display their disdain for the consumer. They could simply have tossed the small bags inside the box with the bracket and everyone would be happy. Or, they could simply use one bag for all screws and everyone would still be happy (everyone saves a little money on 2 fewer baggies, for one thing). At the very least, if they insist on rolling these bags up like this, they could fold over the edge of the tape to make a little starter handle with which to pull it off and open the bags, leaving them intact, allowing us to reuse them for other things and keep them out of the landfill. If you need to save space or just want to stack your SSDs for any other reason, you can't go wrong with this Corsair dual bracket, as long as you don't mind having to fight the hardware packaging. I don't know if Corsair was just trying to be different or cute with this, but it cost them 2 stars on the "Easy to install" metric. I still gave it an overall 5 stars, since it's a quality product with perfect fit and does include the necessary hardware.

I used this to mount a SSD in an old pc and it worked great, after I figured out I needed to turn it over so the screws would align

Holds the Sdd and easy install.