Well, It is a 13-bay(7-internal, 6-external) Full-Tower case. As far as, the
drive bays go, I already have installed:
1. 3.5" FD
2. (2)147GB U320 HD's
3. CD-R/W
The two 3.5" hard drives are in two of the four drive bays in the back of the
computer.
I got the tape drive off of E-Bay. It powers up fine. I had a feeling, the
front bay brackets were permanent. As for the bezels, that wouldn't be a
problem since four of the four of the six bays are not being used. So, I would
just have to pull out one of the bezels, take out the 250MB Tape Drive and, put
the 5.25" in the place of what would be two 3.5" hard drives.
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From: Donk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Anything is possible if you can figure out a way to do it. I drilled a
> hole in the front of a case once to mount a firewire port. In most of
> the ATX cases I've seen the front bay brackets are either permanently
> riveted, or otherwise permanently attached to the case frame. Of course
> there are ways to cut around those. But even if you did figure a way to
> mount it inside, wouldn't the front bezel of the case still be only
> 3.5"? You'd have to cut that larger too.
> An alternative would be to buy an external enclosure for about $20 or
> $30 and put the tape drive in it. They have EIDE, SCSI, SATA enclosures
> that attach to the PC via USB ports.
> But if you just wanna keep a running backup of your hard drive, just buy
> an external hard drive (way cheaper than the LTO).
>
> Good luck,
> Donk
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > My curiosity is this:
> >
> > Would it be possible for me to remove the support brackets on, one of the
> > 3.5"
> drive bays, in order to fit a 5.25" tape drive?
> >
> > I do have a 3.5" Colorado Tape Drive but, 250MB tapes are useless for
> > backing
> up a 147GB hard drive. I bought an LTO Ultrium 2 which can backup 200-400GB.
> But it is 5.25". Will I have to daisy-chain the tape drive?
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> >
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