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Reddit mentions of ORICO Aluminum 5.25 inch to 2.5 or 3.5 Inch Internal Hard Disk Drive Mounting Kit with Screws and Shock Absorption Rubber Washer- Black
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We found 25 Reddit mentions of ORICO Aluminum 5.25 inch to 2.5 or 3.5 Inch Internal Hard Disk Drive Mounting Kit with Screws and Shock Absorption Rubber Washer- Black. Here are the top ones.
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- Compatible with any 2.5 or 3.5 inch IDE,SATA or SAS Hard Drive and Solid State Disk
- Supports computer cases with an available 5.25 inch drive bay (screw-on type);allow to Mount 1x 3.5 - inch Drive and 1x 2.5 - inch Drive
- Separating rubber washer and screws provide excellent heat dispersion and shock absorption
- Made of aluminum alloy; quick and easy installation
- What is in the box: 1 x AC52535-1S, 4 x Rubber Washer, 16 x Mounting Screw, 1 x User Manual, 1 x Service Card; If for any reason you are dissatisfied with your purchase, just let us know and we promise to make it right.
Features:
Specs:
Color | Black |
Height | 1.29921 Inches |
Length | 6.6929 Inches |
Number of items | 1 |
Size | AC52535-1S-US-BK |
Weight | 0.1984160358 Pounds |
Width | 4.25196 Inches |
So I know this thread is about a month old, but I have a Shuttle SH67H3 and I think it’s a beast, so I figured I’d comment. There are different options and if I were building something I’d probably do things differently, but I had gotten a deal on this a while ago and so far it’s suited my needs very well.
So first things first. I use Emby, not Plex. Emby supports hardware transcoding (via FFMPEG using VAAPI) and this has made a huge difference. I know Plex is planning on adding HW transcode, not sure if it’s been implemented yet.
Specs:
Ivy Bridge i7-3770
16GB RAM
Now I didn’t something a little different for storage. I got a 5.25” to 3.5” adapter (https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B005OJFASY/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1). I have 3 8tb drives in there with a 2.5 SSD mounted on between them, the adapter left me enough room to mount two drives to it. This uses all the SATA ports
Then, and this is more recent, I put an NVME SSD (Samsung 960 EVO) in the PCI 3.0 spot with a PCI adapter. The BIOS doesn’t support booting from the NVME, so I put the boot partition on the other SSD. What I’m probably going to do is move the boot partition to a usb thumb drive and install it internally on the usb headers. There’s spare usb headers and I got an adapter to convert these to a USB port.
For good measure, I also had a Sans Digital 8 disk JBOD enclosure that’s basically a SATA port multiplier. The external east ports not he shuttle doesn’t support data port multipliers, so in the other PCI 2.0 spot I got a esata card with two ports.
Most of the time people direct stream, but there are many occasions of them transcoding as well. With throttling on for transcoding, it takes around a minute to do a hour show. CPU runs about 14%. The transcoding temp directory is on one of the SSD’s, this helps speed up the process I’m sure as it reads from one disk and writes to another.
I do the same thing with my NZB’s, intermediate directory on one disk and extract to a different disk. I have gigabit and get sustained 107MB downloads, this is with direct write on, unzipping as it downloads, and also allowing repair on one download while continuing another.
I’ve had quite a few people watch at the same time. Like I said most people direct stream and transcoding is pretty quick so you’d probably have to have at least 11 people start watching something that requires transcoding at the exact same time in order to overload it. Maybe one day I’ll actually run a test.
Software:
Emby
NZBGet
Kodi (this is what I use to watch stuff in my living room)
Sonarr
Radarr
Lazy Librarian
Ombi
Organizr
Webmin (year I know)
Nginx
Nice build. If I could recommend some tweeks for the future...
1)put the ssd on the backside of the case(behind the mobo)
2)put the hdd in a cage and attach it to a drive bay
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005OJFASY/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
You now can remove the drive cage and use the space in the future for water cooling, plus it cleans everything up.
This is the 5.25" adapter I used from Amazon....
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005OJFASY/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Even if you're running an optical drive, you should still be able to fit this in there too. Definitely makes for a cleaner build with removing drive cages.
I have these and they work great and are totally silent (come with grommets) in my r4. Free shipping w/ prime.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B005OJFASY/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1395886205&sr=8-1
For ten comfy drives, Fractal Design Define R5
and two of these.
For eleven drives, three toasty, Fractal Design Define R5, and this.
For twelve comfy drives, Lian-Li PC-A79.
For thirteen drives, four comfy: Corsair 750D, this, and this.
For fourteen drives, five toasty: Corsair 750D, this, and this.
you can convert the 5.25in bays to hold HDDs
You could use one of these to move that HDD up to your 5.25 bays and then remove all the HDD bays on the bottom. You would probably get increased air flow too. You could probably do without the fan you have on the HDD cage now or you could move it to the bottom of the case afterwards.
Looks good!
Been looking for a solution myself. These might help:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/141699818821
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0188V400S/
http://www.ebay.com/itm/271923119160
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005OJFASY/
Seems fine, the cooler should fit (I did not find specific clearance measurements, but the case is wide enough) there are 4x3.5" bays, so enough for the HDDs, you might need to buy something like this to cleanly mount the SSD in a 5.25" bay as there is apparently no 2.5" slot, but you have extra 5.25" bays.
Sure there are:
If you're from the states: Newegg or amazon.
If you're in the EU: amazon.co.uk
> Can't pull PSU cables to the back, because there isn't any space to pull them to the front again, could do that with the case cables, but if that's the only thing, then there won't be much difference.
It looks like the cables are long enough to route behind the back and up top, at least for that 8-pin EPS cable. I think, based on that stock Thermaltake photo, if you take the motherboard out you can then route the cable through the tiny hole cutout.
> Is it safe to just tape a HDD somewhere around the bottom or inside the optical drive's place?
Since HDDs are moving parts they need to be mounted where they won't move or budge. Putting that drive back in the drive bay would fix that issue. If you don't have it then you can get a 5.25" bay to 3.5" drive adapter (like this).
Do you have a make and model for your case? The pictures you posted seem to be showing the inside of the 5.25" drive bays (where one would mount a DVD drive)
E: You can mount hard drives in the 5.25" bays, you just need brackets for them. Here is a link to a simple one from Amazon, $10
pull that optical drive out and buy as slim usb drive to hook up if you need it. Remove all the drive cages and mount the SSD on the back side of the case behind the motherboard and put the 3.5" drive in one of these.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005OJFASY
There is a lot more than can be done here but still way better than some of the snake pits I've seen pass through PCMR and BAPC
You haven't TRULY suffered until you've had to build a system with 3 drives, a moderately sized heatsink and the biggest 900 series card ever made into what is probably one of the tiniest mATX cases out there (EVGA hadron)
https://i.imgur.com/woBe3ZK.jpg
Literally every step of that build from the very beginning was wire management. There were entire discussions on the OC forum Hadron owners thread about various aspects of cable management.
It turned out rad though and was comically powerful for it's size - 7700k @ 4.5ghz, Gigabyte Xtreme 970 and 16g DDR4 3200 RAM
[bought this] (http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B005OJFASY?keywords=5.25%20to%203.5&qid=1453164965&ref_=sr_1_2&sr=8-2) tried all other places. Would just barely fit the top 3.5 spot on the HDD bracket (Was hitting GPU sata cables). Thanks for the headsup, didn't know this adapter existed.
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Hope you like it and If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.
Alternatively, you could put your SSD in your 5.25" bay with one of these.
Thanks....that's the kind of thing I'm looking for. I like for things to be properly mounted. I'll probably try to chop off the front part so it won't show from the outside though
edit: found what i'm really looking for......thanks for pointing me in the right direction
http://www.amazon.com/ORICO-AC52535-1S-Aluminum-5-25-inch/dp/B005OJFASY/ref=pd_sim_147_3?ie=UTF8&dpID=41jZzEbVIGL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&refRID=1ZKBV0GP684PGM6BTEZ0
If you run a build with 1 ssd and 1hhd, I recommend getting a 5.25 to 3.25 mounting adapter like this: http://www.amazon.com/ORICO-AC52535-1S-Aluminum-5-25-inch/dp/B005OJFASY
I placed my HDD right below my CD drive and removed both the drive cages for better air flow.
Those cages don't stack, you just get the one cage (it looks like you MIGHT be able to mount another next to it, I doubt it though). You can definitely install a single HDD in each 5.25" drive bay, or take up both slots and install 3 HDDs, or 4 SSDs per bay
Yes, you could look into this :
https://www.amazon.com/ORICO-Aluminum-Internal-Mounting-Absorption/dp/B005OJFASY
Or search: 5.25inch to 2.5inch bracket
Goodluck
Look for something like this. I can't vouch for this product as I haven't used it, but with a HDD (mechanical) you need a little bit of space for heat dissipation, and something with vibration dampening is nice for noise canceling but not necessary.
You could rig something out of the existing cage and some metal snips / creativity, but honestly it's probably wiser to go for an existing product. Search for 5.25" to 3.5" adapter or something along those lines.
Will this work?
https://www.amazon.com/ORICO-Aluminum-Internal-Mounting-Absorption/dp/B005OJFASY/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1541792754&sr=8-4&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=3.5+to+5.25+drive+bay+adapter&dpPl=1&dpID=41a%2BnV56boL&ref=plSrch
I'm installing an SSD in a 5.25in bay. Looking for recommendations for a good mounting bracket.
Something like this, or is there a better one?
Sorry to waste your time man, don't answer if you don't want to, but is this it?
I don't think that's the bracket you're looking for. The one you linked converts an external 5.25" bay (for, say, an optical drive) to a single external 3.5" bay (for a card reader or floppy drive). You want to convert a 5.25" bay to two 2.5" bays. Because of the greater size difference, there's a lot of options open to you. You could just get something like this, though you'd need to find a 5.25" bay plate to cover the hole. There are also options like this that include a faceplate (and actually will mount 4 2.5" drives), or this if you want to be able to hotswap drives, or even this if you want to retain the ability to have an optical drive.