Love this idea. The swiss army knife of 90s storage needs.

Rhuwyn wrote:

Love this idea. The swiss army knife of 90s storage needs.

I have a beige DVD-RW drive I'd love to use, but its bezel is slightly bent on one side which makes the tray "stick" sometimes. Back when I was still using it (didn't have drives in it now) I figured out if you lightly hit the top of the case it'd unstick itself. 😵

If I do get a good beige DVD RW drive, I need to figure out what to put in the spare 5.25" bay I will have. ZipCD, maybe? 🤣 🤣 Or some sort of tape drive.

I don't really get the need for two optical drives, my reasoning is that if you wanna maximize the variety of media, having two of the same doesn't quite fit. But that's just me, I've seen plenty of PATA DVD-RW drives, so one of those could replace the two current optical drives and free up another bay.

I've also seen two-in-one floppy drives with 5.25 and 3.5. If you can track down one of those you can save yet another bay. I know how hard it is to find even a normal 5.25 drive that still works, so I imagine that one of those combo drives would be highly prized and uncommon.

Anyway, yeah I would totally add an internal Jaz drive and an internal MO drive (magneto optical disk). Or maybe an orb drive... a bernoulli drive, archival tape drive, the options are pretty endless. There are many, many, dead and obscure formats

Having two optic drives can be handy.
On the fly copping of cd/dvds and being able to install two programs at once. Not to mention old games the required a cd, well you can leave your two favorite games in the system. Oh and some latter DVD drives don't have a cd audio cable support. So if you have a latter DVD drive and still want cd audio.

Nothing's a Full House without Bob Saget.

Joking aside, that's a fabulous build. That Acer monitor sure brings back memories; I had one just like it back in 97 or so! 😀

Really liking this build! 😁

I've used a couple of those HDD caddies myself but in the end I ended up never using it as it was easier to simply have the side panel removed and lay the drive on the bottom of the case and attach cables directly.

And how about SCSI? 😜
Or a 2.88MB floppy drive! 😁

It's funny how newer cases seem to have less and less drive bays compared to the old days.

Didn't you hear? Everything can just be stored in the cloud (beamed up there by wireless, presumably).

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

It's funny how newer cases seem to have less and less drive bays compared to the old days.

This is actually a main reason for me to keep using older cases for even way newer builds 😵
It's annoying and cramped and limited.
And I also don't like cases with the PSU on the bottom, but I'm getting a bit distracted here now 😊

gdjacobs wrote:

Didn't you hear? Everything can just be stored in the cloud (beamed up there by wireless, presumably).

Yes lets link up everyone all the time! It's good! It's connection! It's even better and more important than breathing air! If you don't connect and share everything you must be some lame stone or something...

I like it as an option to quickly share larger files with someone but for storage I'd rather keep things close and under my own control 😀

Tetrium wrote:

And I also don't like cases with the PSU on the bottom, but I'm getting a bit distracted here now 😊

Some time in the future I will upgrade my main PC case, which will make available one of these older Gigabyte cases. But stay tuned for some time machines, I don't think you will like them 🤣

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

Tetrium wrote:

And I also don't like cases with the PSU on the bottom, but I'm getting a bit distracted here now 😊

Some time in the future I will upgrade my main PC case, which will make available one of these older Gigabyte cases. But stay tuned for some time machines, I don't think you will like them 🤣

Metal Christmas trees? 😢

Tetrium wrote:

Yes lets link up everyone all the time! It's good! It's connection! It's even better and more important than breathing air! If you don't connect and share everything you must be some lame stone or something...

Me = Lame Stone I guess

Here's the back, with the cool blue led case can, gold power supply and the cards 😀

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

It's funny how newer cases seem to have less and less drive bays compared to the old days.

It seems to be more common now to not even have an optical drive in a modern build since most modern games are online downloads. But...why? CDs are definitely not obsolete yet and it's just so handy to have one installed imo 😕

cj_reha wrote:

It seems to be more common now to not even have an optical drive in a modern build since most modern games are online downloads. But...why? CDs are definitely not obsolete yet and it's just so handy to have one installed imo 😕

I think people just install Windows from a USB flash drive these days and all the games are downloads.

The feeling of installing boxed version of GTA V... 7 dual-layer DVDs, no download can match it. 🤣

gdjacobs wrote:

Tetrium wrote:

Yes lets link up everyone all the time! It's good! It's connection! It's even better and more important than breathing air! If you don't connect and share everything you must be some lame stone or something...

Me = Lame Stone I guess

And the lameness of your stone is inversely proportional to the amount of your daily number of meaningless social media messages multiplied by your total number of binary "friends" whom you have only met digitally...and you get substraction point for every time you complain about this.

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

cj_reha wrote:

It seems to be more common now to not even have an optical drive in a modern build since most modern games are online downloads. But...why? CDs are definitely not obsolete yet and it's just so handy to have one installed imo 😕

I think people just install Windows from a USB flash drive these days and all the games are downloads.

I think the digital copy isn't actually much of a problem. It's more the DRM stuff and the "you always have to be connected to the internet!"-stuff that tends to tick me off.

And I do like having actual physical copies of my games, it looks so much better when looking at them and actually be able to touch the stuff (especially the really old one which had manuals heavier than bricks! 😁)