It’s a precaution. If you were to damage the exposed battery it could cause it to heat up and probably catch fire.

You do no want a lithium battery fire in your house.

If you’re going to do it make sure you have enough time to do it all in one go so you don’t have to leave the back off.

It’s not a long task, I think setting the blank drive up afterwards took longer than the actual drive swap

Yes, well worth it.

I see all the important tips in the comments apart from doing it with a discharged battery.

I had no issues when I did mine.

Thanks for these posts, as others have said I took look forward to seeing them.

They’re a great read and serve as a useful reminder that there are other games apart from Factorio to play.