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I have 6 Hard drive bays, and would like some more.
So i can use my 2 x 5" drive bays as get one of these
http://www.ebuyer.com/245050-startec...ne-hsb320satbk
But damn they are expensive! any cheaper ones you have seen? or a cheaper way to get 3 drives in there? i dont care about hotswap
Do you have enough sata ports on you mobo to support more drives or are you using a sata card?
In my old chieftec dragon case I just fashioned hard drive spacers out of foam rubber and put them in a stack of three in the 5.25 bay area bound by long cable ties, no the prettiest thing but was effective and damn quiet.
Waste of space tbh mate, 5in3s are much better meaning you can have 5 HDDs in 3 x 5.25" drive bays. Price wise hmm they are cheap? I only buy Supermicro and they units are close to £100 but the quality is superb.
Stay away from crap plastic and 40/60/80mm noisy as hell fans...
Supermicro unit:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/a...CSE-M35T-1.cfm
I have three of them backplanes (15 HDDs in total) plus three of these fans as Delta ones are not for my ears...
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/92mm-...quiet-case-fan
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Scan are selling the CSE-M35T1 for £85 in black, bargain!
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/super...oogle+shopping
I have a RAID card, i need them to be snug in there though. Even just some drive rails that will do 3 drives would be fine
I cant, i only have 2 bays. Not bothered about fans, i will sort thatQuote:
Originally Posted by spoon_
Someone selling some just now in for sale section: http://forums.hexus.net/classifieds-...rw-drives.html