Mounting a IDE or SATA Hard Drive in a CDROM case

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Description: Mount your IDE or SATA drive in a CDROM case and bay. Many computer cases do not have adequate room for hard drives. Take a look at how your hard drive is mounted in your case. Does your hard drive have adequate space for ventilation? Or is your hard drive jammed into a tight space? Do you have a secondary drive stacked on top or bottom of the primary drive? Is there space between the drives for ventilation? There should be plenty of free space for air to circulate around the drives. Without ventilation hard drives will overheat. A well ventilated drive should not be hotter than warm baby milk. In this video I show how to utilize your empty CDROM bays and CDROM cases to mount a drive into. You can either move a drive from a cramped and poorly ventilated area of your computer case to the CDROM bay or you can make the CDROM case for your primary drive. I've incorporated a fan onto the top of the CDROM case. This method has the drawback of taking up two drive bays instead of one. Chances are that this fan is not needed for normal computer operation. If your computer has a case fan or two then mount the drive without the addition of the fan. Check to make sure you have air flow coming in or out of the CDROM drive holder after completing the build. Only a slight breeze of air is required to keep the drives ventilated. The fan and hard drive are mounted with DAP brand 100% silicone rubber sealant. Because everything is mounted in silicone, it is easy to slice off the silicone to remove the drive or fan. The silicone will form a strong bond on the drive all the way down to the case. Silicone only the outer walls of the drive to the blocks and bottom of the CDROM case. The blocks that I use for mounting the drive are made from silicone. The silicone blocks will suppress noise or slight vibration of the drive. If you do not have blocks create your blocks by putting a dopple of silicone in their place, let cure then trim. Make sure there are at least a couple of millimeters between the bottom of the drive and the bottom of the CDROM case for ventilation of the drive. Best Always!
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bleu1ray ::: Favorites thats how ideas rr born dude love the vid keep it up 07-09-02 15:25:51 __________________________________________________
FinkFonkFunkaal ::: Favorites Thank You bleu1ray! 07-09-02 17:28:01 __________________________________________________
llod206 ::: Favorites interesting vid 07-08-07 19:46:50 __________________________________________________
hugotj ::: Favorites now i want a cdrom drive! 07-07-27 01:16:23 __________________________________________________
Esparoba2 ::: Favorites Simple and effective only the silicone is a bit untidy. 07-06-22 09:42:35 __________________________________________________
ChrisFromJersey ::: Favorites you know what else works? External hard drives...just saying. I do like what you did with the fan though. 07-06-17 22:11:14 __________________________________________________
NebulaBurst ::: Favorites nice harp is that you? 07-06-12 00:07:59 __________________________________________________
FinkFonkFunkaal ::: Favorites Yes, I play the soundtrack also. Thank You. 07-06-12 02:53:19 __________________________________________________
p1n0yXer ::: Favorites nifty. 07-06-01 16:58:02 __________________________________________________