10 Feb
2006
10 Feb
'06
9:25 a.m.
On 2/10/2006 at 11:15 AM Roy J. Tellason wrote:
I have several instances where I wanted to mount a
small drive in a large
drive bay, and a bunch of those adapters that I've gotten from different
sources. In some cases they worked out just fine. In some others, they
were obviously "floppy" adapters and the screw holes were just in the
wrong place to work with any HD I had on hand here...
There are obviously adapters, and then there are adapters. I pefer the
ones that are a complete tray, rather than just two U-shaped pieces, as the
tray type usually includes bottom-mount holes for drives, which, AFAIK,
will always work.
Anent this, something that hasn't been mentioned is the use of removable
drive trays to accomplish the same idea. These fit in a 5.25" HH drive bay
and enclose your 3.5" drive in a removable (and usually lockable) tray.
This gives you the option of using several drives in the same system. This
probably wouldn't make the purists happy who want 5.25" authentic
appearance rather than functionality, but it's a very clean way to do
what's needed.
If anyone cares, I've got a pile of these things in IDE and a few in SCSI
(they don't work with the "Ultra" mode drives (no, not even if you ground
the appropriate signal pin)) that I'd be willing to send off for nothing
more than what it costs to ship.
Cheers,
Chuck