Corsair 750D - Attack of the modding-greenhorn

[BadBathtubDuck]

Hello everyone,

 

first of all: I have never done such things before but i am sort of a tinkerer, so: I can do this, hold my beer! 
 

As much as i love my Corsair 750D ( LTT unboxing on YT ) there are some things that i want to change about it (some time in the future) and two things that really grind my gears:

 

1 .No matter where i mount the HDD cages, the vibration of the HDD's always gets to the rest of the Case.

2. The HDD-Cages aren´t hotswap and its a real pain to fiddle the cables in whenever u put a drive in.

So what i want to do: 

 

As you can see in this picture:

 

the HDD-cages are mounted on a plastic socket (if you mount it in the bottom), which is attached to the bottom of the case with some screws. These are actually cupped and i want to put something inside it which works like a shoggysandwich so the cage basically stands on foam. (In theory this should kill the vibrations) Does anyone know what would be the best foam to do this? I guess 3 drives + the cage will be to heavy and simply squeeze a shoggy.

 

For the hotswap: I am trying to find some sort of SATA hotswap module/PCB/adapter which i would simply glue into the back of the cage but its actually pretty hard to find something that is exactly what i want. 

 

I found this one but its not really what i want: (just to give you a basic idea) 
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-202-SV

 

That one is interesstig as well, but: why the heck are there two SATA ins ?(I have seen this on some pictures of HS PCB's too)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-319-SV&groupid=2362&catid=1770

 

Thx in advance 

 

Duck 

[W-L]

-SNIP-

 

I used those drive cages for a short period of time on my 650D and found the same issue, the best solution I found was to mount the entire cage onto a thick block of foam using double stick tape, it eliminated all vibrations, but as for the hot swap option you amy need to do some inkering to get things to line up well and securely mounted. 

 

however you may want to get the sata/power backplate for the corasir 900D since it is a set of 3, mounting will be slightly less work.

http://www.corsair.com/en-ca/900d-hdd-sata-hot-swap-cable

[BadBathtubDuck]

Did you get any specific foam? This corsairbackplate looks interesting, althoug it might be kinda hard to cut it if i need to.

[W-L]

Did you get any specific foam? This corsairbackplate looks interesting, althoug it might be kinda hard to cut it if i need to.

The cage was installed on a riser that was made of plastic and on the bottom I screwed in place a piece of acrylic and on the bottom of that some foam and double stick tape to keep things in place. As for the type of foam I previously used some closed cell foam used for weatherstripping around doors but found some sheets of closed cell packing foam and used that afterwards since they gave a larger surface area for tape.

[BadBathtubDuck]

So i finally found the time to at least silence the HDD cages:
 

 

First i glued these M4 screws under the sockets:

 

Then i took 3 layers of this foam i had lying around:

 

Layer 1:

 

Layer 2:

 

This middle layer basically holds the nuts for the screws that go into the socket and those who go through to the bottom mesh of the case:

 

I glued the nuts for the screws that go through to it as well: 

 

Layer 3:

This is actually the one which lifts the socket from the case.

 

And this is how it looks like in the end: 

 

I took this pic through the glass of my desk because i forgot to take it in the first place:  :rolleyes:

 

 

Now for the Hotswap: I was thinking about those plugs: http://www.corsair.com/de-de/carbide-air-540-hot-swap-connector

But now i need a good material to construct the "backplate".

 

Suggestions ?    

 

 

 

[W-L]

-SNIP-

 

Looks good to me, for the hot swap backplate if you plan to use that hot swap connector I would mount them on a piece of acrylic since it's fairly easy to cut and shape if necessary with good rigidity.