What do you use your optical bays for?

[JonJ678]

I ask because just about every atx case I look at has at least four of these.

Personally, I have one optical drive, and the other three are empty. Eventually I'll put a kama bay over them, currently they're just holes letting air in

 

[PermaBanned]

Letting air in is a good thing...

I'll have one or two, it's useful for burning discs but i don't do that very often. Other than that, reservoirs or sound absorbent blocks.

 

[Geckovich]

One DVD-ROM, not even a burner - haven't burnt a disk for years - and my res. A lot of wasted case real estate really.

 

[Lemin]

Hard drives.

 

[Kennysevenfold]

4 dvd burners

 

[J.B]

I just have the one BR drive and I have a fan controller/card reader thing. As its an Antec 900 the blankers are vent like so probably does a little bit for airflow.

 

[alle]

...Fan controller and 3 dvd drives.

 

[setter]

I used to run 2 optical drives, one rom and a dvdrw, switched to the single dvdrw, which i subsequently replaced with a blu ray/dvdrw combo drive, kama bay with a 2000 rpm intake fan in the other three bays, second s939 rig has 2 opticals and two vantec vortex hdd enclosures housing 2 36gb raptors in raid0.

 

[slowrunner]

I have a single DVD-RW drive up the top, and both my hdd's supported by 4mm bungee cord, making them almost completely silent.

 

[Faffer]

Top slot - Optical drive
2nd slot - Fan controller
3rd-5th slot - Scythe Kama Bay + intake fan

 

[MeatLoaf]

3 bays in my antec 300, top 2 have DVD writers in them the bottom one has the drive bay expansion for my x-fi

 

[MoRT489]

One DVD drive and NZXT Sentry LX (2 slots), before the LX i had it open with 2x 80mm fans sucking in air. Now i have a fan behind the Sentry to help airflow.

 

[DreXeL]

Main rig:

- DVD/RW drive (1xbay)
- Scythe Kaze Master fan controller (1xbay)
- XSPC Dual DDC Bayres (2xbays)

HTPC:

- Blu-ray drive
- 20x4 LCD Display

 

[johnboy1998]

On my old coolermaster 331 I built a 120mm fan holder out of wood and had a 120mm mounted with one optical drive above it and a 120 at the bottom too!

 

[Glaucus]

2 optical drives and the other 6 have brackets for fans. But only got one fan in at the moment. Noctuas cost.

 

[jamesgoss]

1 DVDRW drive. Only ever used for ripping CDs and installing games. All it seems to do is spoil my case's uniformity!

 

[mollymoo]

I use it for storing all the useless cables from my psu

 

[oggmonster]

BR-ROM/DVD RW and a DVDRW.

If you open them up they make pretty good cupholders

 

[milkinc13]

optical drives
1 x DVD RW
1x Blu-ray rw & HDDVD ROM

 

[PhillyDee]

Main PC. 1 optical dive (I have 9 bays - Lian Li PC-a17) 3 have a fan behind with 1 hard drive.
My server also has 9 bays. (The case is a Thermaltake VI1000BWS)

Top: Optical drive
Then a 5-in-3 bay for hard drives
Then a 3-in-2 bay for hard drives
Then another 5-in-3.

In fact, Ill take a picture . . . .

EDIT:

What do I win for filling all 9?