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Looking for Hard Drive Cage

Diablo2K

Diablo2K

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I have a Gigabyte 3d Aurora, I am useing 2x 5 1/4" drive bays and have 3 open bays. I was considering removing the current hard drive cage as all it does is block most of the incoming air and getting a hard drive cage that mounts in the 3 open drive bays. i really like the look of the ones in the Antec Nine Hundred case but cant find anywhere to get one of those. I looked at what newegg had and found:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16841101036
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811999141
the Lian Li one seems to be somewhat incompatible as it has the tabs on the front section, they could probably be removed but also the grill looks really restrictive.
The Thermaltake one looks like it would work but it has no front grill, so I would have to find something else or make something. I don't have alot of tools so I would like to do as little modding as possible, I aint even sure if I will be able to remove the rivits holding in the hard drive cage in my case, I am thinking I will need to get a Dremel and a 90 degree attachment to get to some of the rivits. After getting those I might as well get the Antec Nine Hundred and save myself alot of time and money.
Anyone know of any good hard drive cages with front 120mm fans that fit into 3 Drive bays and an easy way to remove hard to reach rivits?
 
Well I think I found my solution. I was looking around and found this Black Scythe "KAMA BAY I think this should work fine along with a couple 5 1/4 hard drive adapters. The case is screwless so the hard drives will sit in there held in by friction just like the CD-Rom bays only they will need to be pushed back a little bit but I got plenty of room in that area, the front fan can be held in with a couple screws. Funny thing about my case is I have a single hole in the front part of the slot so I can put in the Black Scythe "KAMA BAY and have it held in securly. also even with the door closed I think there will be enough gap on the bottom of the door to allow more then enough airflow to the fan.
i was also thinking of getting 3 of these http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16817984001 I think these could be easily modded to work with the front Kama Bay, but I dont know how they will hold up the being squeezed by the Cases Tooless features, I know it was pretty hard getting the CDRoms pressed into place. I guess I will get it all figured out once I get everything.
 
Diablo2K said:
Well I think I found my solution. I was looking around and found this Black Scythe "KAMA BAY I think this should work fine along with a couple 5 1/4 hard drive adapters. The case is screwless so the hard drives will sit in there held in by friction just like the CD-Rom bays only they will need to be pushed back a little bit but I got plenty of room in that area, the front fan can be held in with a couple screws. Funny thing about my case is I have a single hole in the front part of the slot so I can put in the Black Scythe "KAMA BAY and have it held in securly. also even with the door closed I think there will be enough gap on the bottom of the door to allow more then enough airflow to the fan.
i was also thinking of getting 3 of these http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16817984001 I think these could be easily modded to work with the front Kama Bay, but I dont know how they will hold up the being squeezed by the Cases Tooless features, I know it was pretty hard getting the CDRoms pressed into place. I guess I will get it all figured out once I get everything.
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You could get that KAMA bay and a set of these -
http://www.mountainmods.com/product_info.php?cPath=21_34_65&products_id=326
 
That is a good idea but i got to be honest, the way they have them set up I would really worry about the fan breaking and the hard drives falling onto something, if they mounted the bracket so it fit between the fan and the case so that the fan does not bear all the weight and vibration then I wouldn't have a problem with those. however the fan on the lower front of my case is mounted on the outside of the chassis so I could use it there as it would be screwed to the chassis and not to the fan directly, but I would have to mod the case which would not be that hard to do.
 
Diablo2K said:
That is a good idea but i got to be honest, the way they have them set up I would really worry about the fan breaking and the hard drives falling onto something, if they mounted the bracket so it fit between the fan and the case so that the fan does not bear all the weight and vibration then I wouldn't have a problem with those. however the fan on the lower front of my case is mounted on the outside of the chassis so I could use it there as it would be screwed to the chassis and not to the fan directly, but I would have to mod the case which would not be that hard to do.
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The typical fan will hold the weight fine. Think about how much weight a radiator filled with water is in comparison to a HD. But if you are worried about it use some long 6-32 bolts with a nut to go through the entire fan/bracket.
 
Good idea about useing the long bolts. I have no idea about how heavy a filled Rad would be, I have never messed with watercooling.....yet!

I have been thinking about those brackets over the last couple days. I may get them just for backups. Right now I am only useing 2 hard drives, I dont have any use at the moment for any more than that but its always nice to have options incase things change.
 
Well I finally removed the Drive cage, and now I need to mount the Hard Drives. I am going to get the Scyth Kama Bay and use Scyth Hard Drive mounts.

That is if I can't find where to get a Drive cage from a Antec Nine Hundred case. if anyone has any info on where to get one please let me know!
 
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