Cheaper mounting assembly than MaxUpgrades?

[toke lahti]

I'd like to place one sata drive and another ata drive in the place for second optical drive, so is there any other solutions than MaxUpgrades?
I wouldn't like to pay almost $200 for piece of metal...

 

[slughead]

I'd like to place one sata drive and another ata drive in the place for second optical drive, so is there any other solutions than MaxUpgrades?
I wouldn't like to pay almost $200 for piece of metal...

LOL yes

I found this for $5

http://www.xpcgear.com/floppymountkit.html

Then buy a $8 SATA cable and plug it into one of the extra SATA ports.

If you're just doing ATA (and not SATA), you don't even need to do that! There's already a cable in the optical bay for it.

See this article for more info on EXACTLY what you're doing:
http://www.tenthousandpercent.com/?section=other&article=65

 

[JeffDM]

Slughead, I think toka lahti meant this:

http://www.maxupgrades.com/istore/index.cfm?fuseaction=product.display&product_id=158

This allows using two hard drives in a single optical bay. It's not $200, it looks like it is $129 but that is still pretty high.

I'll have to take a look at the innards of the Mac Pro, but I think I might be able to make something decent for far cheaper than that.

 

[slughead]

Slughead, I think toka lahti meant this:

http://www.maxupgrades.com/istore/index.cfm?fuseaction=product.display&product_id=158

This allows using two hard drives in a single optical bay. It's not $200, it looks like it is $129 but that is still pretty high.

I'll have to take a look at the innards of the Mac Pro, but I think I might be able to make something decent for far cheaper than that.

yes, however, he said he only needed 1 hard drive

 

[suneohair]

This will get you one SATA at least and it is only $39.

http://www.transintl.com/store/category.cfm?Category=2704

 

[JeffDM]

yes, however, he said he only needed 1 hard drive

I count two:

I'd like to place one sata drive and another ata drive in the place for second optical drive

This will get you one SATA at least and it is only $39.

http://www.transintl.com/store/category.cfm?Category=2704

That only holds one drive. The $39 version is for the single ATA drives, no adapter is needed because a PATA connector is right there. The $69 version allows the use of a SATA drive with the PATA to SATA adapter included in that price. The SATA adapter is weird though, it doesn't have the standard drive MOLEX connector that's already in the bay.

 

[toke lahti]

Seems to be that MaxUpgrade has monopoly for this, so I decided to buy dremel instead and mod an old optical drive enclosure...