the #00 philips wouldn't turn the 4 screws in the hard drive (step 7) and I ran the risk of stripping either the head of the screws or the screwdriver itself, but the work around was use a pair of pliers to turn the screws from the outside first, loosening them enough you can use the screw driver. Torx screws would be a lot better here

I'm thinking about doing a project with one of these and replacing the (dead) HDD with a 2.5" SATA laptop SSD - the objective being to make it truly silent and reduce heat, since I know these can fail from overheating. I'm guessing (as I don't have one to open up and look yet) that I could just double stick tape the 2.5" drive to the inside of that metal chassis the original HDD slid out of?