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Creative Uses for 5.25" Drive Bays?

Posted by Cliff on from the anything-but-another-drive dept.

ZeLonewolf asks: "Like I'm sure many slashdot readers, my computer has a number of free 5.25" drive bays free. After the requisite burner, DVD drive, maybe a tape drive, there's invariably a few slots free. Do any slashdot readers have any creative suggestions for filling the gap?"

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  1. Removable hard disk caddies by james+b · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've filled a couple of slots with 'mobile rack' (why do they call them that?) removable IDE caddies.

    They're basically a plastic caddy into which you put a hard disk, and a 5.25" size bay with a flip-down cover on the front. You wire your IDE ribbons to the connector on the back of the bay, which stays fixed in the PC, and you can swap the drives in and out to your heart's content (erh.. when the computer is switched off...)
    I use them for carrying stuff to friends' houses, and also recently when I had to run windows for a while I just swapped in a new hard disk rather than messing with my partitions.

    /james