Adding a Hard Drive bay inside my case?

[LEIP]

I am wondering if there is any sort of part that would create another bay or two for an extra hard drive? This is my situation....my case has 3 optical bays, a floppy bay and one hard drive bay. In those 5 bays I have 3 hard drives, a DVD player and a burner. In other words I have all my bays full. I want to and need to add an SCSI boot drive and need the existing storage that I already have in my case (i.e. removing a hard drive and replacing it with the SCSI boot isn't an option). There is empty space in my case where I could rig something to hold the SCSI, but obviously I want it to be very secure. Any ideas?

Thanks,
-LEIP

 

[edfair]

Your hard drive doesn't care about security. It cares about the affects of being unsecure. You can put it anywhere that gives you space and will allow you to secure it from falling. With some airflow too.
If I read your description correctly, I probably would get 2 angle brackets and mount the new drive vertically on 1 arm of the brackets and tie down the existing drive through the other arm.

Ed Fair
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[LEIP]

Thank you for the reply. I don't know what angle brackets are? I think I know what you are suggesting and it will probably make more sense once I know what an arm bracket is.

Thanks again
-LEIP

 

[edfair]

An angle bracket is a piece of metal bent in the middle at 90 degrees. Like a minature shelf bracket.


Ed Fair
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[LEIP]

Thank you

 

[paparazi]

If yours is one of those case's that has a space under the last hard drive bay then you can extend the bay downwards using radio bracketting.
These are bendable flat metal strips, pre-drilled, about 20mm in width about 1.5mm thick and come in 30cm or so lengths (available from any car audio centre)
You could cut yourself 4 equal 6cm lengths and "drop them" from the screws holding the lowest drive (you may need to fit slightly longer screws and washes) effectively extending the hard drive bay.
Martin

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[LEIP]

Thats a great idea, thank you