5.25" Drive Bay or Not?

5.25" Drive Bay or Not?
 

 
 
 
 

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Manic Mouse
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I still need them but not for the things usually need them for (3.5″ HDD, CD/DVD/BR drive).

I stuff them with fan controllers, water cooling reservoirs, hardware system monitors and super drive bay stuffers holding a couple SSDs, USB/Firewire ports and memory card readers. Thanks to well-performing USB-attached optical drives the days of dedicating a 5-1/4 drive bay to a single optical drive a re long gone!

Mark Baker

Asus X79 Deluxe, Intel i7 4790K @4.4Ghz (stock speed), 32gb G.Skill RipjawsZ 10-10-10-30 PC3-12800, MSI 970 Gaming 4G, Samsung 840 Evo, Vertex 4, Intel 510 & Adata SX900 SSDs, wrapped in a CoolerMaster HAF XM case. Monitor 27″ Samsung SyncMaster SA850 2560 x 1440

WesleyNL
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personaly i wan’t those 5.25 drive bay but most cases have those drive holders in it witch i dislike since Mobile Rack CSE-M35T-1 can not fit in that way ,
i perfer more cases like #484 – Cooler Master CM Stacker Case (STC-T01) this instead although i didn’t like the cooling and aitflow in it , it had lots intake specialy the crossflowfan but no outakes,

i modded my top pannel with 3x 12cm fans for a rad, but sadly this aluminium parts on the front are demaged and i can not replace them since they hold down the side pannels

what i also like about this case is, to can make it left or right sided because the mobo tray can be repositioned from left to right

i like to see more cases like the old stacker since it have alot space and nothing in the way for backplanes, even the usb/button pannel can be re-positioned or removed , and this case wasn’t that expansive compare to nowdays cases witch have more plastic parts and thin dust filters then this one,

i discontinued this case , though i have it in the basement atm empty since i sold all hw

here some images of how it looked what i did to it
http://i.imgur.com/3rtmobG.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ECiDK6T.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/m0IxoNE.jpg