This DIY hard disk cage was made by combining a gutted generic casing’s hard disk rail with an optical drive. It rides on the optical drive’s bottom piece to allow it to be slotted into the casing.
I simply gutted the dead optical drive and cut slits into the bottom piece. The hard disk rail has slats which was then inserted into the slits, and bended to secure it. An 180MM cooling fan was later added for cooling purposes.
I didn’t use this cage for long as I’ve later bought this cage from Cooler Master (which is no longer available). The fan introduced too much vibration to my liking anyway.
This could only hold three hard disks, and populates three 5.25″ drive bays. A standard ATX casing with two optical drive bays won’t fit. Comparatively, the Cooler Master’s hard drive cage holds four drives, and its included cooling doesn’t vibrate much.
My main computer has five drives installed. An NVMe drive is used to boot Windows, and the rest are for data. Three other drives are two units of 2TB drives and one 4TB drive. Sadly, I do not know what happened to this mod.
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