Mount fan in drive bay?

Tom B · 1 Jun 2015 at 14:00

Is there an easy way to mount a 120mm fan in an optical bay? Some sort of bracket the with of an optical drive would do it presumably?

MrMD · 1 Jun 2015 at 14:03

Just use cable ties and thread then through the screw mounts for disc drives

Tom B · 1 Jun 2015 at 14:10

Was hoping for something a bit more permanent/less ugly than that. Really I want to mount a H50 radiator in there but if I could connect a fan then that would be easy

ttaskmaster · 1 Jun 2015 at 14:43

Akasa Cagestor, as well as triple-bay mounting brackets from Mountain Mods, StarTech, etc.
There are several different products, it looks like.

setter · 1 Jun 2015 at 14:56

Lian Li produce several such bay units, scythe kama bay is another. But hard to find now.

Keechy · 1 Jun 2015 at 15:21

cable ties are the best way forward

setter · 1 Jun 2015 at 15:29

I've used both bay devices I mentioned above, but also hung a 120mm fannin the nays using sewing elastic. No issues with vibrations.

pastymuncher · 1 Jun 2015 at 16:38

Cable ties. What does it matter what it looks like as you won't see it?

ttaskmaster · 1 Jun 2015 at 17:14

pastymuncher said:
Cable ties. What does it matter what it looks like as you won't see it?

Depends on the OP's case, I guess.
My case's blanking plates are full of vent holes, so even with mesh added you'd see *all* the ugliness... as well as them blatantly showing through the side panel window, of course!

pastymuncher · 1 Jun 2015 at 19:00

I cable tied one into the 5.25" bays of my old Coolermaster Scout case which had vented and filtered blanking plates and I couldn't see the fan. As it was right at the front of the bay you couldn't see it through the side window either.

setter · 1 Jun 2015 at 19:03

Tbh guys, your meant to look at whats on the monitor. Not at the case.

sneakysnail · 1 Jun 2015 at 19:03

Another for cable ties here. I have 2 140mm fans mounted at the front of my pc using them and they work no problem

GAM8LE · 1 Jun 2015 at 19:04

My case has the 5.25" bay at the top, gap in the middle, then the HDD bay at the bottom.
I saw there were holes at the bottom of the top bay that I managed to screw the fan into, a 140mm fan.

Does yours have anything like that at all? Even if its not threaded