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Ok guys and gals.
Putting my main gaming rig into a beautiful ATC-110 case. Its a conroe system with crossfire ATI graphics so needs a decent airflow. For that reason I dont want to block the fans with hard drives if I can get away with it. I have 6 hard drives and 1 optical drive to fit in. Therefore to leave the 4 bays in front of the fans free I need to use the two 3.5inch external bays for drives.
Problem is that the bay covers come back a fair way into the case and there is only one screw holes available for mounting when putting the drive in normally. If you turn the drive around it is a similar story due to the placement of the drive guides inside the case. I had though of drilling an extra hole so each drive could have a second mounting, but decided against that as it was hurting the case and I dont want to have to take the system out before doing this work.
Other then getting fewer bigger drives and only having 4 disks can anyone think of a solution to this. I am guessing my fellow ATC nuts might be the best bets as they will know instantly what I'm on about, but everyone is welcometo give me ideas. One possible option if putting some sort of drive caddy system in the 3 5.25inch bays below the dvd-rw drive, but what one?
Putting my main gaming rig into a beautiful ATC-110 case. Its a conroe system with crossfire ATI graphics so needs a decent airflow. For that reason I dont want to block the fans with hard drives if I can get away with it. I have 6 hard drives and 1 optical drive to fit in. Therefore to leave the 4 bays in front of the fans free I need to use the two 3.5inch external bays for drives.
Problem is that the bay covers come back a fair way into the case and there is only one screw holes available for mounting when putting the drive in normally. If you turn the drive around it is a similar story due to the placement of the drive guides inside the case. I had though of drilling an extra hole so each drive could have a second mounting, but decided against that as it was hurting the case and I dont want to have to take the system out before doing this work.
Other then getting fewer bigger drives and only having 4 disks can anyone think of a solution to this. I am guessing my fellow ATC nuts might be the best bets as they will know instantly what I'm on about, but everyone is welcometo give me ideas. One possible option if putting some sort of drive caddy system in the 3 5.25inch bays below the dvd-rw drive, but what one?