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I was setting up a Compaq Presario SR1012 for someone whose old Compaq
5301RSH (both from Radio Shack) had died, and I thought I would put the
hard drive from their old PC in the new tower. But the tower has no spare
drive bay or anywhere else to mount another hard drive, and the cable
is just a "Master" cable select (single connector).
It has:
(2) 5.25" full height bays (DVD & CD-RW)
(3) 3.5" bays (multi-memory card slots, floppy, and audio/usb connectors)
(1) 5.25 half height hard drive bay
At least it has an extra hard drive power plug, and I used the 2 drive
cable select cable from the old PC to temporarily connect the old drive
with case open to transfer files. If they do not want to go to the
expense of an extra drive bay, they could at least put some holes in the
bottom of the case where an extra hard drive could be mounted (with the
threaded connections on drive bottom), even if it required a customer
supplied drive cable.
My now related HP a530n looks like the same deal (except DVD+RW & CD) with
only Master cable and place to mount 1 hard drive. But it has a tab with
threaded holes and chassis slots where it looks like something could be
added to hold another drive.
Most PCs have 2 IDE channels, so especially a tower (with loads of empty
space), should have some place to mount 4 IDE drives, even if one is a
simple chassis mount instead of a drive bay. Punching some extra holes in
the chassis (like my old NEC Pentium 100, which ran 3 hard drives and CD)
would cost next to nothing.
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David Efflandt - All spam ignored http://www.de-srv.com/
I was setting up a Compaq Presario SR1012 for someone whose old Compaq
5301RSH (both from Radio Shack) had died, and I thought I would put the
hard drive from their old PC in the new tower. But the tower has no spare
drive bay or anywhere else to mount another hard drive, and the cable
is just a "Master" cable select (single connector).
It has:
(2) 5.25" full height bays (DVD & CD-RW)
(3) 3.5" bays (multi-memory card slots, floppy, and audio/usb connectors)
(1) 5.25 half height hard drive bay
At least it has an extra hard drive power plug, and I used the 2 drive
cable select cable from the old PC to temporarily connect the old drive
with case open to transfer files. If they do not want to go to the
expense of an extra drive bay, they could at least put some holes in the
bottom of the case where an extra hard drive could be mounted (with the
threaded connections on drive bottom), even if it required a customer
supplied drive cable.
My now related HP a530n looks like the same deal (except DVD+RW & CD) with
only Master cable and place to mount 1 hard drive. But it has a tab with
threaded holes and chassis slots where it looks like something could be
added to hold another drive.
Most PCs have 2 IDE channels, so especially a tower (with loads of empty
space), should have some place to mount 4 IDE drives, even if one is a
simple chassis mount instead of a drive bay. Punching some extra holes in
the chassis (like my old NEC Pentium 100, which ran 3 hard drives and CD)
would cost next to nothing.
--
David Efflandt - All spam ignored http://www.de-srv.com/