Tiny Computers (Remember them?!) Hard Drive Question

Hands up who remembers the 'Tiny' brand of PC that were sold in the UK in the late 1990's/ early 2000's ? Im trying to do some research for a small web feature on the now obsolete manufacturer and i'm trying to pin down the hard drives that were installed in the different machines and to be perfectly honest its proving tough going as the company went bust years ago and no one seems to have any detailed records of the types of hard drives fitted to the various models of Desktop PC's which is surprising as they were the UK's best selling make for a few years. I think that most of them came with regular Fujitsu, Maxtor & Seagate drives and i have managed to locate the different model numbers for most of them but i remember a friend of mine having one (probably around 1999/2000 -ish) where the hard drive was located in a steel box (which to all intents and purposes looked like another DVD or CD Rom in the tower casing ) and the regular IDE connector plugs were slid through pre cut holes in the back of the steel box and the hard drive was inside.
To cut a long story short the hard drive was dead so we had a look and inside this box (I THINK it may have been a 5.25" size box - Did they make 5.25" IDE internal hard drives for personal PC's back then?) the actual drive was uncovered apart from the box it was housed in. Simply pushing the connector plugs through the back of the box released the drive from its housing and it slid out the other (open) end completely exposed and unprotected - platters, spindle, heads etc were there for all to see!
The drive is long gone but i cannot for the life of me remember what make or model it might have been. Any ideas - PLEASE? Can you think of why the drive was made to fit in a large steel box like that? I remember that the actuator was quite tall so that was possibly why? I have not seen a hard drive in any PC like that before or since
I wish i had taken more notice of the make and model, whether it was single or multi platter etc but this was nearly 10 years ago now !! Any suggestions or ideas gratefully received as its really bugging me now !