What do you put in your 5.25 Bays?

[viperlasson]

I stuff all my wires in that space, cable management ftw!

[Pikarya]

I stuff all my wires in that space, cable management ftw!

auxiliary psu or bust!

[nitsuj]

http://zalman.com/ENG/product/Product_Read.asp?Idx=207

It does what it's supposed to do, nothing fancy. With so many fans in my system some are doubled up (ALL are controlled via the fan controller - even the 3 fans on my CPU heatsink). Also, I have the neon cathodes connected to the last toggle switch so I can easily kill those when I want instead of installing the shitty PCI cover on the back and having to reach back there everytime i wanna turn em on/off. If you want something with the temps etc readout then you're gonna have to step up to the LCD ones. Albeit the inside case temperatures shouldn't really matter.The only thing that should matter is the temps of your components in which case RealTemp and your GPU software is suffice and much better than what you would get by the temp sensors that come w/ fan controllers.


My fans are either all idle or all full bore. I have an Antec 1200 with (counting....) 11 (13 counting the fans on the GPU's) fans. So, I only crank em up whenever I am actually doing something that will warm the system up as it is no doubt loud

And wtf why won't my sig display - It shows the sig picture in my control panel >.>

I'm thinking I'm gonna need to get a fan controller to control the heat/volume of the fans so I'm gonna read up on this one, looks pretty rad.

Found this last night:

http://www.scythe-usa.com/product/ac...rb_detail.html

Seems to be a pretty nice drawer, as well. MSRP is like 8 bucks.

[Stromgarde]

DVD-R/W drive and a vertical Scythe Kama bay with a Magma 120mm fan in it (3 slots).

[Kaisha]

Can someone explain to me why you'd need a fan controller?

Is it just an easy means of monitoring fan-speed/temperature, or do people actually fiddle with their fan speeds from time to time?

[Pikarya]

I could see its use, but with current technology in the market for consumers. If you want to be a minimalist, you could have every fan plug into a custom board, and then just modify speeds via software. While this method may cost slightly more, I'd probably opt for it due to personal preference.

[nitsuj]

UPDATE!

I went with one of these.... 2 bays down, 2 to go!

http://www.antec.com/Detail.bok?no=676

http://www.pureoverclock.com/images/...tec_sata_1.jpg

[Darus Grey]

I put 5.25 floppy drives in them...wtf else would you do with it?!

[nitsuj]

I put 5.25 floppy drives in them...wtf else would you do with it?!

ok you win the thread.

[levish]

I had a 5.25 Bay device which takes 4x 2.5" hard disks in a single slot that supported RAID and then ran 4x Intel x25-m SSD's in RAID0 which I had OS and Games on.

[nitsuj]

I had a 5.25 Bay device which takes 4x 2.5" hard disks in a single slot that supported RAID and then ran 4x Intel x25-m SSD's in RAID0 which I had OS and Games on.

holy shit dude, that's some money invested in harddrives :D. I have a single X25-M and it was expensive enough for right now heh

[#686578]

More 3.25" harddrives tbh

[Ordengate]

I had a 5.25 Bay device which takes 4x 2.5" hard disks in a single slot that supported RAID and then ran 4x Intel x25-m SSD's in RAID0 which I had OS and Games on.

Got a make and model for this? I'm looking to RAID two of those here real soon and don't feel like putting the SSDs into the normal hard drive spots.

[Cesaria]

Only thing I'd put in one of my empty bays would be a media-card reader.

Always annoying having to get my USB one out just to transfer a couple files. Don't really see a need for anything else as I'd prefer not to have the extra power drawn from the PC.

This. My old PC had one of the bays taken up with one of these - didn't realize how useful it was until I had one, then until I didn't have it when I upgraded recently. Saves the endless "where the fuck did I put the USB cable for THAT" desk excavation when I need something off my phone/camera/MP3 player etc.

Or like a bajillion other USB ports - I remember wondering how the hell I'd use up 2 of them... how naive I was.

[Deband]

http://i46.tinypic.com/2z404jm.jpg

[Stromgarde]

This. My old PC had one of the bays taken up with one of these - didn't realize how useful it was until I had one, then until I didn't have it when I upgraded recently. Saves the endless "where the fuck did I put the USB cable for THAT" desk excavation when I need something off my phone/camera/MP3 player etc.

Or like a bajillion other USB ports - I remember wondering how the hell I'd use up 2 of them... how naive I was.

I had an internal card reader in my last tower, but it seemed next to impossible to get one that had good reviews for it. I wound up just getting an external one for my new rig.

[Agito]

http://www.lian-li.com.tw/v2/tw/product/EX-b.jpg
Extra intake, i don't put hard drives in it.

[nitsuj]

Went with this for bay #3. One more to go!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811998076