Corsair Spec-01 Case Mod

[TheOskar57]

I've modded my Corsair SPEC 01, I've taken the hard drive bay out, and the two hard drives that I have, I sticked them with velcro in the optical drive bay.
Now I think the build looks a lot better, tell me what you think. 

Sorry for crappy picture quality.

[Pando3448]

i know it´s an old post but... how do you remove that Hard Drive bay?  , i am interested in modding this case too, i want to revive my old brother pc :).

[Suika]

33 minutes ago, Pando3448 said:

i know it´s an old post but... how do you remove that Hard Drive bay?  , i am interested in modding this case too, i want to revive my old brother pc :).

It's held in by screws from the bottom, in the front, and against the back of the motherboard tray.

[Pando3448]

thanks , man , couldn’t figure out how to move that HD bay ?.

And now I finish “modding” that part and this is how it looks now  .

[Peter Zee]

On 1/23/2018 at 11:31 AM, Suika said:

It's held in by screws from the bottom, in the front, and against the back of the motherboard tray.

what kind of screws were those? because it looks round to me and im not sure what to use or do to take it off. im planning to remove the optical bay. thanks! 

[Suika]

5 hours ago, Peter Zee said:

what kind of screws were those? because it looks round to me and im not sure what to use or do to take it off. im planning to remove the optical bay. thanks!

Those are rivets, so unless you have a specialized tool for removing them, I don’t believe you can take the optical drive out as easily as the HDD cage.

[kirashi]

4 hours ago, Suika said:

Those are rivets, so unless you have a specialized tool for removing them, I don’t believe you can take the optical drive out as easily as the HDD cage.

A drill bit and some elbow grease will remove rivets. Putting them back in though, well, one does not simply put rivets back into place.

[Suika]

3 hours ago, kirashi said:

A drill bit and some elbow grease will remove rivets. Putting them back in though, well, one does not simply put rivets back into place.

For some reason I didn't realize that, but there's still the issue that it'll hurt the case structurally, and he'd be removing the rivets from the top and front panel so he'd need a rivet gun to get them back together. It's just not practical to completely remove the 5.25" drive bays.

[TatamiMatt]

Hi, did you put the HDD bay into the ODD bay to hold the drives, and if so how did you fit the HDD bay into the ODD? I assume you cut it down and am wondering how you managed to fix it in place if you had to cut the screw holes off, im thinking of modding similarly to you and removing the HDD bay and cutting holes into the ODD bay covers to add a small fan for some more positive pressure and to have some air flowing over the HDDs

[TatamiMatt]

On 1/24/2018 at 9:46 PM, Pando3448 said:

thanks , man , couldn’t figure out how to move that HD bay ?.

And now I finish “modding” that part and this is how it looks now  .

Specifically this photo, Pando