Silly Question regarding hdd??

[richy22]

We have an old Packard Bell PC from a few years ago (4-5). It has a relatively small hdd in it and we also have another PC that houses all my other halfs music and work bits etc

I want get rid of her rediculously old and heavy one which means transferring all her bits on the hdd in the packard bell. Now what I wanted to do was buy a 500gb or 1tb hardrive and mount that in the case as a secondary but those cheap stock cases dont have any addtional brackets to mount any more hdd's?? I dont really want to buy a 1tb and only have that as that means sodding around doing a new install and transferring all my bits and pieces over.

Any ideas/suggestions? Can you buy a bracket that gives you an addtional mounting point?? I have limited knowledge of this...

 

[Darren S]

Do you have a spare 5.25" bay in the case? Along with power and data connection? If so, you could get something like the following to mount inside one of the free bays?

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/icy-dock-bodyguard-525-rack-mb228mgf-ata133-aluminum-plus-fan

A bit pricing - you could get one without the bling off the eBay, I sure for a fair bit less.

D.

 

[richy22]

Im not sure actually. I literally whipped the side off and looked at the hdd fixing and that was it. Il have to take a proper look later.

 

[MikeoftheQuays]

My HDD lives in the bay for the floppy drive. My old GTX260 graphics card was gigantic and took up all the HDD spaces so I had to shift it. New GPU is considerably smaller but I've not really seen the need to move the HDD back. It seems to be happy enough where it is.