Missing the 5.25 bay

[romanovangel]

Who else is missing the good ol' 5.25 drive bay ?

 

I know now days you don't really need it anymore but it can still be useful....

 

Ex: I still need a DVD' s 

I had a lot of problems with 2 laptops and 1 pc where they just couldn't connect to the internet and needed some software from a old DVD ( nothing I downloaded worked )

 

I want a HDD/ SSD connection port.

I plan to install more operating systems on multiple cheap HDD to try them out ( for fun :)) and I don't want to reinstall or have a single ps for all of them

 

And what is with fan controllers ? Some people use them 

 

So a 5.25 drive bay can still be usefull

[alatron978]

I still have a dvd drive installed . It is mainly used when my hdd dies and decides it is now a dvd drive and opens my actual dvd drive when i try to open a file on it. RIP old hdd.

[Spotty]

Okay? Buy a case that has 5.25" slots then.
https://pcpartpicker.com/products/case/#G=1,12

[Lady Fitzgerald]

As far as I'm concerned, cases never had enough 5.25" bays. That's why I'm building a machine with 14 of them.

[Spotty]

9 minutes ago, Lady Fitzgerald said:

As far as I'm concerned, cases never had enough 5.25" bays. That's why I'm building a machine with 14 of them.

[Lady Fitzgerald]

5 hours ago, Spotty said:

Well, gee, I love you too. 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

6 hours ago, quakeguy81 said:

If you really wanted to go old school back when 5.25 inch floppy drives were a thing before we even had CDs or DVDs.

 

If you want old school, how about 8" floppies and punch cards? I used to file the punch cards we used to "quickly" look up stock balances and use a thermal transfer machine to transfer transactions from what looked like an overgrown carbon copy to large transaction cards for each stock code. Talk about primitive sneaker net...