Front Accessible 3.5" Drive Bays - List of things you can use?

Big.Wayne

Big.Wayne

Big.Wayne

Soldato
Joined
11 Sep 2003
Posts
14,716
Location
London
Hi,

What good use can those Front Accessible 3.5" drive bays be put to, you know the bit where the floppy drive usually goes?

  • Fan Controller

  • Card Reader

  • Extra USB2.0 Ports

  • Zip Drive Thingie

What else is there? Out of all the things I can remember the fan controller seems the most useful, but these days the motherboards BIOS/Included fan headers seems to do a good job of controlling the fans.

Is there anything I missed?
 
hard drive, small graphical display, audio/video connections.

You can do a surprising amount of things with the floppy drive bay :)
 
Werewolf said:
hard drive, small graphical display, audio/video connections.
Click to expand...
Cheers Werewolf, hmm I don't think I have seen a 3.5" 'small graphical display' before, will look into that. I've seen additional audio connectors but I don't know many people that would use that, is the Creative Live-Drive thingie 3.5" now or still 5.25"?

Never heard of a 'video connection' that fits into a Front Accessible 3.5" drive bay?

I'm aware of laptop hard-disks, not sure what size they are but you got me thinking, would be cool if there was a hot-swap type caddie you could fit into there but with USB2.0/Firewire/SATA external drives about now I don't see any advantage to using laptop disks in a floppy bay?

Hmm I wonder if there is anything that you can fit that takes up the space of 2x Floppy bays (double height?).
 
Laptop disks are 2.5" as opposed to 3.5" on a desktop. Ive never seen a caddy to fit into a 3.5" bay. I dont suppose there would be much call for them.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom