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Drive cooling bay device

Dorkenstein

Dorkenstein

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I need a new location for my hard drive in my P180 as the middle bay is blocked by a video card and the lower bay is too hard for me to configure and cable through as there is a fan right next to it. Would getting a bay cooling device be a good choice? I want to get one but I think they take 3 slots and I only have 2 open since I have a dvd drive installed. Am I out of luck? Thanks.
 
Personally I would use the lower bays. I have two of these cases...well one old and one 182 I think...but both of them have 4 sata drives in the bottom bay. If you are using sata, when you can snake the cables (i did 4, so 1 is easy) up through a small hole in the back that leads throught where the floppy sits. It's a little hard to get the SATA cables through there, but with a smaller connector it will work. I would use a long cable, though, so you don't break your sata connector pulling out the drive bays. I did that twice....no three times.
 
Yes, there are quite a few HDD racks that take up three 5" bays for up to 4 HDDs. OTOH, you can get an active cooling bay device for HDDs for one 5" bay (one HDD - I think Thermaltake sells one, the Silverstone FP53 is another, et al., and quite a few mobile HDD racks have a useful fan for active cooling) or two 5" bays (up to 3 HDDs - under the i-Star brand on Newegg and is sold under no brand name elsewhere).

.bh.
 
Originally posted by: Cr0nJ0b
Personally I would use the lower bays. I have two of these cases...well one old and one 182 I think...but both of them have 4 sata drives in the bottom bay. If you are using sata, when you can snake the cables (i did 4, so 1 is easy) up through a small hole in the back that leads throught where the floppy sits. It's a little hard to get the SATA cables through there, but with a smaller connector it will work. I would use a long cable, though, so you don't break your sata connector pulling out the drive bays. I did that twice....no three times.
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Hmm, the lower bay really? I don't think it will fit because the lower bay fan is on the drive cage side and it would be blowing air from the PSU onto the hard drives. I will double check though. It looks like the lower bay is my only reasonable option but I would need to make it work somehow. If I had more 5.25" bays it wouldn't be an issue. Thanks.
 
i have the newer p180 and i was easily able to put a hard drive in the lower bay and have the sata cable go out of the sides and snake back in i think, but eitherway, i got it to work easily.
 
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