What do you put in your 5.25 Bays?

**nitsuj** · 2010-02-17 16:33

My new tower has 4 5.25 bays in it. Top one has a Blu-ray player/DVDBurner in it.

I have 3 more.

What cool stuff can I put in there?

Stuff I've already found, but isn't really practical:

http://i458.photobucket.com/albums/q...ge/sentry2.jpg

Eh? Eh?

http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Produc...sory/A2413.jpg

Or how about this? <3

http://www.geeks.com/imageshare/S/30...P-BAY-soft.jpg

What about hot swappable SATA bays? Really cool temp. monitoring? Fan controls?

Someone has to have something cool in there...

**CoronA1979** · 2010-02-17 16:46

My case has 3 external 5.25's - One is my DVD burner and the other is a 6 channel fan controller.

3rd is empty-

**rezn0r** · 2010-02-17 16:50

my penis

ok seriously dvd burners and my penis

**nitsuj** · 2010-02-17 17:29

Originally Posted by CoronA1979

My case has 3 external 5.25's - One is my DVD burner and the other is a 6 channel fan controller.

3rd is empty-

Is your fan controller pretty good? Would you recommend it?

What model?

I've seen that you can get little metal drawers for tools and stuff. I'm going to likely get one of those, but that leaves me 2 additional bays still...

(I put my penis in the empty floppy bay. Seemed fitting)

**Pikarya** · 2010-02-17 18:23

I've had two psone lcd's in storage for so long now to do this.

http://i49.tinypic.com/14afloy.jpg

http://i50.tinypic.com/21bkop3.jpg

**Kaisha** · 2010-02-17 18:29

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.

**fishstix** · 2010-02-17 22:37

I used to store CDs there, if i could get a cooling unit, i'd probably put beer

**shiarua** · 2010-02-17 22:47

DVD Burner
Scythe Kama bay
Lamptron FC2 fan controller

nothing special

**nitsuj** · 2010-02-17 22:51

Originally Posted by shiarua

DVD Burner
Scythe Kama bay
Lamptron FC2 fan controller

nothing special

o.O

You still play?

**shiarua** · 2010-02-17 23:16

Originally Posted by nitsuj

o.O

You still play?

nope lol. Just lurk BG, etc.

**Omnipotent** · 2010-02-17 23:42

Originally Posted by nitsuj

http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Produc...sory/A2413.jpg

Or how about this? <3

What do you call that? DVD touchscreen monitor or something?

**nitsuj** · 2010-02-18 00:05

Originally Posted by Omnipotent

What do you call that? DVD touchscreen monitor or something?

No idea what you'd practically use it for. I imagine like someone posted above... maybe a winamp monitor or something..

Or just for lulz and bragging rights?

**Omnipotent** · 2010-02-18 00:08

Originally Posted by nitsuj

No idea what you'd practically use it for. I imagine like someone posted above... maybe a winamp monitor or something..

Or just for lulz and bragging rights?

I only wanna use it for music... so basically.

**Kryssan** · 2010-02-18 03:25

That monitor was originally made for a specific case they had available. It was a massive case, that involved two MB trays. One a normal ATX and the other an ITX, meant to be both a gaming and media platform. You were supposed to be able to use the mini-screen in the 5.25" bay to watch stuff while you were playing games on your big screen. The idea never really caught on though. I don't even know if that particular case is still available. It was HUGE though.

Mostly all I have in my bays are DVD drives, with the exceptions of my servers, which have HDD swaps. I use Chieftec's SATA/SAS enclosures.

http://www.chieftec.com/images/sst-3141sas_03.jpg
http://www.chieftec.com/images/sst-3141sas_04.jpg
http://www.chieftec.com/images/sst-3141sas_05.jpg

**Chicomagiko** · 2010-02-18 04:11

That SATA/SAS enclosure is awesome. I must acquire.

**graviton** · 2010-02-18 04:34

apart from a bdvd drive, nothing as the fans are in the door on the pc-p80 ;P

**Kerberoz** · 2010-02-18 05:49

dvdrw I never use, fan controller, hot-swappable hard drive cooler, last 5.25 is empty, card reader in the spare floppy bay

that mini-monitor looks cool but my case has a front door and I'm betting it costs as much as a 24" anyway :/

**CoronA1979** · 2010-02-18 08:55

Originally Posted by nitsuj

Is your fan controller pretty good? Would you recommend it?

What model?

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 >.>

**Kryssan** · 2010-02-18 09:05

Originally Posted by CoronA1979

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

Well, it might be obvious, but did you make sure the box was checked in your post?

**CoronA1979** · 2010-02-18 09:18

Originally Posted by Kryssan

Well, it might be obvious, but did you make sure the box was checked in your post?

Don't see said button - I know what you're talking about as I seen it before but since I changed my post editor or w/e I see it no more o.O

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