is it just me or do drive rails suck?

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dinde

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i have an antec slk3700amb. so i got a sunbeam rheobus right. first, i can only mount the thing onto 1 screw cus no other holes line up (i dont know about cd drives cus i havent baught it yet) so its very loose. furthermore, its mountes just about 1 and a half mm too far back, which ticks me off. any ideas? is it just me, or does ayone else hate these things?
 
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Lord Evermore

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Drive rails are great. No need to sit there trying to shove a screwdriver into a small opening, or hold screws and drives in place with one hand (some cases don't have support at every bay level) while getting the screwdriver in.

Not the drive rail's fault that sunbeam makes their device with screwholes that aren't in standard positions. Probably designed to work with cases that have the long slits where you can stick a screw anywhere.
 
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Jeff7

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Could be bad drive rails or something; It took some getting used to, but the rails on my good ol' Enlight 7237 make it quite easy to pull a drive out for any reason.
 
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cbuchach

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How do you like that case (other than the drive rail thing)? Because I ordered one last night for my new rig.
 
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phatj

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I dont think i'd buy a case if it didnt include drive rails =D Makes things so much easier
 
alkemyst

alkemyst

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yeah definitely here YMMV....

I love my Additronics setup, a lot of adjustability....maybe if every drive maker would settle on a screw placement and thread size we all could be happy.
 
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Slogun

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Drive rails do indeed suck.

I like the way my Lian-Li uses removeable cages.

But I will take barebones over drive rails.
 
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arcenite

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I do not mind drive rails, especially if you frequently work on your computer and need to pull the drives in and out.

Bill
 
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thorin

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Originally posted by: Slogun
Drive rails do indeed suck.

I like the way my Lian-Li uses removeable cages.

But I will take barebones over drive rails.
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You have cages for your 5.25" bays? If a CDROM was in a cage you'd have to pull it towards the rear of the case to remove it, wouldn't it hit your RAM? (It would in most cases)

Thorin

 
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chizow

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You have cages for your 5.25" bays? If a CDROM was in a cage you'd have to pull it towards the rear of the case to remove it, wouldn't it hit your RAM? (It would in most cases)
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Unless you have more than 8 x 3.5'' drives (mid-tower, I believe the full-tower LL's hold 12 or 13), you'd never need drive rails. There's a horizontally mounted internal cage that holds 5 x 3.5'' and a vertically mounted external cage that holds 3 x 3.5'' drives. They're both held by thumbscrews; the external cage comes out the front so you'd never bump into any motherboard components or IDE headers. 5 1/4'' devices have guides that hold them in place. 2 screws is all you need per drive.

Chiz
 
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dinde

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Originally posted by: cbuchach
How do you like that case (other than the drive rail thing)? Because I ordered one last night for my new rig.
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well, it doesnt look half as bad as i thaught it would. doesnt look like "baby puke" at all. it actually looks silver, not bronze. i put everything in last nite, minus cpu and ram. great. its pretty roomy i guess. not too too big, and no sharp edges.

P.S i think im gonna get the guy whos re-doiung my kitchen to drill some new holes in the drive rail :D

 
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Thraxen

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The Chenming cases have a mix of rails and cages (rails for 5.25 and cages for 3.5). I like the rails better. If you have multiple components in one cage you usually have to disconnect all of them to remove the cage, but with rails you just disconnect the component you are working on/replacing and slide it out.
 
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DanFungus

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Originally posted by: Lord Evermore
Drive rails are great. No need to sit there trying to shove a screwdriver into a small opening, or hold screws and drives in place with one hand (some cases don't have support at every bay level) while getting the screwdriver in.

Not the drive rail's fault that sunbeam makes their device with screwholes that aren't in standard positions. Probably designed to work with cases that have the long slits where you can stick a screw anywhere.
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what he said :)
 
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Slogun

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Well, yea, I was referring to drive cages for the 3.5" bays. Hard drives are the only thing I swap in or out with any frequency.

My one case that had drive rails, an old enlight, went in the trash a couple months ago.
 
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lenjack

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i really like the drive rails on my Enlight 7237...I see no downside to using them.
 
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GregMal

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I was worried about getting a new case that required rails.....
Then I purchased the Antec SX835II and I never believed that
is was so easy to install hardware in it........I'll never go back...
Greg
 
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