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External Drive Bays

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Yushatak

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I've got a customized old mid tower from the late 90s, which I am very attached to. I modded it with faux-wood, have all kinds of oddball hardware in it, and it's stuffed with expansion cards and drives of all sorts.

That's also the problem - it's stuffed. I have 2-3 SATA HDDs that aren't in use, and I intend to buy more, too. My plan was to get a NAS box, but obviously that isn't optimal for performace. As well, I would like to keep things all to the one box, physically. As such, I just came up with the idea of an external drive bay/cage. Anybody ever see something that could be attached to an existing case to add more bays? Perhaps something that you'd mount to a side panel, etc.?

I realize that'd be a mod, but has anyone seen it done? Any thoughts on the matter? Perhaps I can get a tiny computer case and mount it to the rarely-opened other side panel of my machine, just to use for it's bays.. Back in the 80s there were "expansion chassis" units for machines like the 5150/5160 that were literally just a second case with no mounts for a motherboard, heh.

Edit: I suppose something could also be attached to the top, which I thought of pretty much right after I posted. :p
 
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