Where to fit a slave HD?

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My midi tower has a three 3.5 bay cage - all occupied by floppy drive, front
USB/firewire/audio, and HD. I wish to add a slave HD. Does anyone have a
suggestion as to where I can locate this please? There is a space above the
PSU, but it's very poorly ventilated, and the slave connection would not
reach that far.
Miles
 
MilesG said:
My midi tower has a three 3.5 bay cage - all occupied by floppy drive,
front USB/firewire/audio, and HD. I wish to add a slave HD. Does anyone
have a suggestion as to where I can locate this please? There is a space
above the PSU, but it's very poorly ventilated, and the slave connection
would not reach that far.
Miles
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I see two options:

1) if your original harddrive is relatively small
and your new one, large...
just clone your OS to the new one...then remove the original drive
and put the new one there

2) remove the usb/firewire/audio assembly & put your HD there.
then terminate your usb, etc. through the rear of the machine
 
philo said:
I see two options:

1) if your original harddrive is relatively small
and your new one, large...
just clone your OS to the new one...then remove the original drive
and put the new one there

2) remove the usb/firewire/audio assembly & put your HD there.
then terminate your usb, etc. through the rear of the machine
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Or, if the o/p has a spare 5.25 bay, get some HDD rails and put it in there.

SteveH
 
MilesG said:
My midi tower has a three 3.5 bay cage - all occupied by floppy drive,
front USB/firewire/audio, and HD. I wish to add a slave HD. Does anyone
have a suggestion as to where I can locate this please? There is a space
above the PSU, but it's very poorly ventilated, and the slave connection
would not reach that far.
Miles
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Buy an external USB hard driver enclosure. Problem solved.

Ed Cregger
 
hard drive rails to fit it in your 5.25" bay would be your best bet.

If you rarely use your floppy(like most people nowadays), then remove it and
place your hdd there...
 
SteveH said:
Or, if the o/p has a spare 5.25 bay, get some HDD rails and put it in there.

SteveH
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Yep you used to get rails with any retail box HDD purchase - the rails
simply adjust the 5.25" (CD-ROM drive) bay width to 3.5". Alternatively you
could get a HDD caddy to fit a 5.25" bay - you can get these with fans for
extra cooling, or you could get a removeable caddy, where you can slide out
the HDD for security or backup purposes..Ebuyer do one for £4:
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X3Jldmlld3M=&product_uid=72253
 
anywhere you can find room, you may need an adapter kit to bolt it on.
btw it should go where there is some air movement
 
Buy a new case ..... Antec SLK1650B is usually about
$60 depending on where you go. I think CompUSA
has them for that.

johns
 
Buy a new case ..... Antec SLK1650B is usually about
$60 depending on where you go. I think CompUSA
has them for that.

johns
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Many thanks to all of you for your advice. We use the floppy drive just
occasionally to transfer data to/from an ageing W98 laptop and similar
d/top, and the front USB is handy for a dongle, so I reckon the best bet
(cheapest, neatest and simplest) will be to use rails in a spare 5 1/4"
slot. I suspect I'll have to put the master there and the slave where the
master is, so that the slave connecting block will reach.
I thought there just might be something on the market like a cage extension
kit.
Miles
 
MilesG said:
occasionally to transfer data to/from an ageing W98 laptop and similar
d/top, and the front USB is handy for a dongle, so I reckon the best bet
(cheapest, neatest and simplest) will be to use rails in a spare 5 1/4"
slot. I suspect I'll have to put the master there and the slave where the
master is, so that the slave connecting block will reach.
I thought there just might be something on the market like a cage
extension kit.
Miles
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heck , if i knew you had a 5.25" slot avail...
that's what i would have suggested first...
it's a five minute, $1 solution!
 
philo said:
heck , if i knew you had a 5.25" slot avail...
that's what i would have suggested first...
it's a five minute, $1 solution!
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Ohhh...sorry. I was a bit anxious about cooling, as it's not so well
ventilated up there, and lower down below the 3 1'2" bays is in line of the
air flow.
Miles
 
heck , if i knew you had a 5.25" slot avail...
that's what i would have suggested first...
it's a five minute, $1 solution!
Click to expand...

(Apologies if this is duplicated. I don't see it if it got there first
time - the news server is playing up I think - and I didn't see my original
post)

Ohhh...sorry. I was a bit anxious about cooling, as it's not so well
ventilated up there, and lower down below the 3 1'2" bays is in line of the
air flow.
Miles
 
MilesG wrote in message ...
Ohhh...sorry. I was a bit anxious about cooling, as it's not so well
ventilated up there, and lower down below the 3 1'2" bays is in line of the
air flow.
Miles
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I once saw a 'hard-drive cooler', but I shined it because it **used a 5.25
bay**!
So, you could kill two birds with one stone.
[Cyberguys cat. no.C501-b, pg 74 $30.us, removable hard-drive rack w/fan]

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My midi tower has a three 3.5 bay cage - all occupied by floppy drive, front
USB/firewire/audio, and HD. I wish to add a slave HD. Does anyone have a
suggestion as to where I can locate this please? There is a space above the
PSU, but it's very poorly ventilated, and the slave connection would not
reach that far.
Miles
Click to expand...

Adding a PCI hard disk controller card (they're pretty cheap these
days) can allow you to put in a second drive with it's own ide cable
anywhere it will fit since you don't have to worry about the small
distance limit on the ide master/slave cable. You'll get better
performance also.

If you use a floppy or 5" bay slot, take out the cover and replace it
with a piece of filter foam, e.g. cut up a Sears craftsman Foam Sleeve
for wet/dry Vacuums (9-17888) and let your case fans pull in some
outside air over your drive.
 
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