Hardrive clicked, froze my PC and pooped itself. What is a good set of rails for a 3.5 HDD? I have an Area 51 ALX case

[Alwitus]

So my HDD, that I bought this year, finally kicked the bucket, it didnt have anything important just games, but I did a very bad job installing it since I didn't have a set of rails (or case, whichever you prefer) and I left it hanging on one corner. Unsurpisingly, it started clicking today and froze my PC which forced me to manually restart it. I took it out and restarted the PC, it seems fine now, the hard drive that has Windows is still intact. Still, I'm thinking of buying another one but I want to know which set of rails would be best for my case, the hard drive that died didnt fit and left quite a bit of space so I had it tilted for that reason. The one that still works is a Maxtor with a width of 4 inches. Thanks in advance to anyone that can help me.

[tekmage]

Honestly, you would have been better off using gorilla tape to secure the hard drive in place. You never want to mount a hard drive in the way you did.

I think you can use these for your ALX case. https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16811994070?Item=N82E16811994070&Tpk=N82E16811994070

 

Hope that helps.

[Alwitus]

Honestly, you would have been better off using gorilla tape to secure the hard drive in place. You never want to mount a hard drive in the way you did.

I think you can use these for your ALX case. https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16811994070?Item=N82E16811994070&Tpk=N82E16811994070

 

Hope that helps.

Thanks, I managed to get the HDD working. I backed up the important stuff only on my main drive, around 100GB. I'll back up the rest on another drive I have. Still, thanks again but do you know if that tray is available outside the US?

[tekmage]

I imagine it would be. The tray isn't just made for the Alienware ALX case but for all cases using that interior blueprint.

[goranpaa]

You could also get an SSD drive and just as said Gorilla tape it to a suitable place. I have 3 such SSD drives mounted with tape behind the front case, fan intake for some additional cooling in my Antec full tower case.