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External Bay Converter

Davidh373

Davidh373

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I have a Thermaltake Element S. The case has 3 External 5.25" bays. I was (admitedly) stupid and ordered a 3.5" USB/ Firewire drive without doing any measurement or research into how it would fit.
Basically, I work with a production company. We needed this in somewhat of a hurry for capturing. I have 2 computers with firewire, but transfering takes a lot of time and it was a bottleneck in workflow. I did enough research to tell me it would work with the motherboard at least. So I know that will work.

This is the device:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-355-_-Product

Is there any way I can get a bay converter to make things presentable? I've seen brackets for Hard Drives which appear like they'd work but I would rather have it black or silver to match the look of the case.
 
Why not get a couple of these or the like and do your transfers at sata speeds?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817993031

17-993-031-TS
 
I'm kind of confused. Are you trying to mount a firewire drive in a case or are you just looking for a nice front firewire port?

Where does the hub fit in the picture.
 
Schmide said:
I'm kind of confused. Are you trying to mount a firewire drive in a case or are you just looking for a nice front firewire port?

Where does the hub fit in the picture.
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I have an external 3.5" Firewire/ USB. I want it to mount in my case which has only 2 remaining 5.25" bays. I need something to hold it in place.

Look at the link I posted originally.
 
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Do you need quick removal? If this is a permanent mounting, just remove the drive from the firewire/usb case and mount it like a regular drive. The reason I showed the above solution is because it seemed like you were looking for some hot swap solution.
 
Thank you, Zagood. Sorry for the confusion. It is actually an external bay, but it is an internal device. That is where the confusion was.

Shmide, bud you are still way off. No offense, but you cant quickly remove a firewire/ usb port. You should have looked at my link. It was no where near being a hard drive related issue. I needed to Capture footage through the port I was installing, just as I said. I needed a bay converter that looked acceptable, as the one's Zagood posted are.
 
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Davidh373 said:
I have a Thermaltake Element S. The case has 3 External 5.25" bays. I was (admitedly) stupid and ordered a 3.5" USB/ Firewire drive without doing any measurement or research into how it would fit.
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and this

Davidh373 said:
Shmide, bud you are still way off. No offense, but you cant quickly remove a firewire/ usb port. You should have looked at my link. It was no where near being a hard drive related issue. I needed to Capture footage through the port I was installing, just as I said. I needed a bay converter that looked acceptable, as the one's Zagood posted are.
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You're talking about mounting a HD. You said both computers had firewire.

I was basically saying if you need to move one drive between two computers and need it to be fast, the sata drive mount would be the best. Sorry to confuse you.
 
Nope, not at all, again, check the link I posted originally. That is the device I am installing.

Davidh373 said:
This is the device:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-355-_-Product

Is there any way I can get a bay converter to make things presentable? I've seen brackets for Hard Drives which appear like they'd work but I would rather have it black or silver to match the look of the case.
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That is what I need a Bay converter for. There is no hard drive involved. I said I own two computers with firewire, but since this computer is the one we work on, it also needs a firewire port to capture footage. Capturing involves the firewire camera a video editing suite and requires a firewire port. Yes, it does write a video file to a hard drive, but that was not anywhere near the subject of the question, it was simply intended to be a short explanation of my situation.
I know what a hard drive looks like, If you think what was posted in my link is a hard drive, you have some problems, and you probably shouldn't give tech advice. Reread my original post and look at the link I posted and you'll realize you made a mistake.
Also, even if by chance I was talking about a firewire drive, how would taking it out and making it sata be any better?
None of your posts made any sense
 
Yes, and that is why I posted the link so all could see what I was talking about. I directed you to click on the link 3 times but you either refused to or you didn't know how. I know I called it a drive because it fits in a drive bay. I however, did not call it a "hard drive" or a "hard disk drive" or say it was a "portable firewire hard drive" and I cleared up that it was not referring to any of these in my second post. I could understand at first but I had to keep reiterating.
I also said "External Bay" which also probably confused you into thinking I was talking about an external hard drive. An External Bay is one which sticks out the front of your case. It is used for multicard readers, cd/dvd drives and the like. You got one word out of three interoperated correctly twice. I'm sure among all my posts you could have went National Treasure on me and tried to decode my post because I was not thinking of one correct word. "He says Drive here, Hard here, External here and Firewire here... he must mean it's an external firewire hard drive!".

What really got me was when you told me that I was "talking about mounting a hard drive" when I pretty clearly was not.
 
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