The only external devices needed there would be the DVD drives, and they are so thin now they are hardly obtrusive, and the card reader, which you can get USB ones no bigger than a memory stick. All fan control can be done with software, or there's the internal Aquaero 6 LT USB,
1/. I don't want cables trailing. End of. I don't care how few/many external USB devices you can name. I don't want that. My desk is cluttered enough and space is very limited. Thin still takes up a footprint. The whole point of this modding is to have things internally mounted and externally accessible.
2/. So five or six different USB card readers also needed.... Great, more expense.
3/. Fan control all with software - yes, and you also have an onscreen keyboard so you can do
that with software too, but I don't see you chucking out your physical one... I want dials. It works best with me and my design.
and there are obviously far better res options than the 5.25 bay ones.
None of which look or do anything like the ones around which my PC has been designed and modded.
A big part of my reason for having a custom-build PC is all the things I can do with it, including the looks. Since we have so many cases with so many different designs and windows, I assumed that meant looks were important.... but if we're all going to have the exact same components and layouts with everything done by internal software, what's the point in even having different colour cases? Why aren't we all going back to boring white opaque boxes?
Not sure what 15 other devices you're talking about though.
Half of them are self-built mods using 5.25" drive casings. It's an easy housing to work with for people not already highly skilled in top end custom modding.
Others include things like DACs, hot-swap bays, switch panels and so on. Some people use things like OC Stations, too. Plenty of other things to use those bays.
As is, I've had to cut extra holes in my case to fit more things in.
I do see how YOU may need all those bays, but hardly anyone building a new system now would do that. Going forwards, 5.25 is dead. It will linger, just as 3.5 did, and some people will hang on, but eventually it will disappear altogether.
That doesn't mean it's better.
Touchscreens are everywhere, but we still have physical buttons on things like keyboards. If could get a mobile phone with a full size QWERTY still, I would. Touchscreen, supposedly "the way of the future", is a pain in the **** pile of stinking ****, with entire websites dedicated to the **** ups people have made with them.
Nothing wrong with including removable 5.25 cages to give people the choice... Just don't try forcing this **** on me.
Same for the trend of small, mini or micro cases with naff-all inside them - I actually want the stonking great huge cases, 900D or bigger, with loads of space for loads of modding.
