June 10, 200422 yr Author I'm gonna try to mount it in a 5.25" bay....I ordered this fan thing that fits right in the front of the bay.. hopefully it will work any advice?
June 10, 200422 yr Author I'm gonna try to mount it in a 5.25" bay....I ordered this fan thing that fits right in the front of the bay.. hopefully it will work any advice? OH, you've got a 5.25" bay free - no prob, yea slap it in there. A CD/DVD won't get too hot, and the brackets to mount in that bay should have enough adjustability that you can get the drive a fair bit of clear air all around. If the power supply fan is stout enough, you may not need another. Just leaving the bay blank off may be enough. You can also heat up a butter knife with a propane torch and melt some vent slots into a solid plastic bay blank. Kinda stinky process best done outside to avoid setting off smoke detectors though...but it works well. The melted goop trailings trim off pretty easily with a single edge razor blade or X-acto. Yea...thanks for the advice obviously the bay being 5.25" and the HD being 3.5" I won't be able to mount the drive to both sides... the drive may be on a slight tilt.... I'm not sure how its gonna play out though...I may be able to tighten one side of the drive to the bay well enough to get it nice and even... I'm putting the new hard drive on the very bottom 5.25" bay so that there will be a metal platform from the case underneath it...the bay above it will be free and right above that will be 2 CD drives I figure I'm safe because there won't be much heat around the hard drive with the bay above it being free and directly below it lies the floppy drive What do you think?
June 10, 200422 yr You can also buy an external enclosure for the internal HDD. It'll act as a external HDD, and you'll save money. External enclosures can be cheap as $25.
June 10, 200422 yr Author You can also buy an external enclosure for the internal HDD. It'll act as a external HDD, and you'll save money. External enclosures can be cheap as $25. Yea...I saw those.... I just got an 80gb western digital off of ebay for like $64 shipped
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