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BrandStartech
Item Height
18.4 centimetres
Item Width30 millimetres
Technical Details
- Durable all metal construction for mounting any type of 3.5in device into a 5.25in bay
- Backed by a StarTech.com 2-year warranty and free lifetime technical support
- All metal construction
- Four (4) mounting screws included
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Product Description
Product Description
This Drive Bay Mounting Bracket Kit lets you mount a 3.5in Hard Drive in a 5.25in drive bay, allowing you to maximize the internal space-efficiency of your computer case. Backed by StarTech.com''s 2-year warranty.
Product Description
StarTech.com 3.5in Universal Hard Drive Mounting Bracket Adapter for 5.25in Bay
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
I have a Dell Optiplex 755 which has 2 internal 3.5inch hard drive bays. I bought this adapter bracket to allow me to mount a 3rd hard drive in a vacant 5.25inch bay.
The bracket comes with 2 sets of screws. Attach the bracket to the drive using the 4 'HDD size' screws provided. The bracket then provides 4 screw holes in the standard location for an optical (CD, DVD) drive. Use the 4 'CD size' screws provided to fix everything into the optical drive bay.
In the case of my Dell, 5.25in drives are located and slid into position using 3 shoulder screws provided with the PC. These fitted to the bracket without problem (I didn't need the screws supplied with the bracket), and the new hard drive clicked into place and is now up and running. No probs whatsoever.
Note that you don't need a bezel to cover the front of the drive, as a 3.5in drive is shorter from back to front compared to a 5.25inch drive, and so will sit happily well back from the existing front panel bezel.
Hope this helps
The bracket comes with 2 sets of screws. Attach the bracket to the drive using the 4 'HDD size' screws provided. The bracket then provides 4 screw holes in the standard location for an optical (CD, DVD) drive. Use the 4 'CD size' screws provided to fix everything into the optical drive bay.
In the case of my Dell, 5.25in drives are located and slid into position using 3 shoulder screws provided with the PC. These fitted to the bracket without problem (I didn't need the screws supplied with the bracket), and the new hard drive clicked into place and is now up and running. No probs whatsoever.
Note that you don't need a bezel to cover the front of the drive, as a 3.5in drive is shorter from back to front compared to a 5.25inch drive, and so will sit happily well back from the existing front panel bezel.
Hope this helps
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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For some time now, a couple of years in fact, I have been looking for brackets like these, not constantly but slipped into my mind a few times. Problem is most modern ATX cases still have the 3 or 4 5.25" drive bays from the days where users could have 2xCDROM/RW and 1xDVDROM/RW in those days the space was necessary, the hard drives always get dropped to the bottom of the case. I am guessing nowadays, like myself, many home users only have 1 5.25" drive bay occupied with a DVDRAM which does everything but we still have 3 or 4 unoccupied bays and hard drives sitting on the bottom. Problem for me especially with the large graphic cards now available is that there is a mess of cables and very little space to fit more than 1 hard drive around a long graphic card. This is the solution, its simple and works brilliantly. Take out hard drive(s) screw bracket to hard drive(s) and pop them in a 5.25" drive bay. There are no instructions and several ways to fix the brackets just choose which suits you best.
Now my 2 hard drives sit under my DVDRAM in 2 of the 4 5.25" bays I have available and a bonus is I can and have reversed my hard drives so the power and data cables face the front thus hiding any wiring and saving even more space. My XFX Radeon HD5870 graphic card has lots of room now, more air flows around it and there are no hard drives to obstruct it. I can even install a 2nd graphic card now the hard drives have been moved without juggling drives around.
Innovative product, cheap and brilliant.
Now my 2 hard drives sit under my DVDRAM in 2 of the 4 5.25" bays I have available and a bonus is I can and have reversed my hard drives so the power and data cables face the front thus hiding any wiring and saving even more space. My XFX Radeon HD5870 graphic card has lots of room now, more air flows around it and there are no hard drives to obstruct it. I can even install a 2nd graphic card now the hard drives have been moved without juggling drives around.
Innovative product, cheap and brilliant.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Simple and easy. Does what it is supposed to do without any fancy gimmicks. Included were two brackets (one for each side of the HDD), 4 small screws to attach HDD to the brackets and 4 larger screws to attach the brackets to the case.
Instructions not required. One bracket goes either side of the hard drive, and then bolts to the chassis.
As 'Mr. E. Stern' said, if you can't install one of these, you shouldn't even think about taking the cover off the PC.
Instructions not required. One bracket goes either side of the hard drive, and then bolts to the chassis.
As 'Mr. E. Stern' said, if you can't install one of these, you shouldn't even think about taking the cover off the PC.
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