Adam,

     The following URL contains some information about what you need to
convert the 5.25" bay to accept a 3.5" drive. You can shop around for the
drive bay brackets to find a price that is suitable for you.

http://www.pcguide.com/ref/case/baysRails-c.html


HTH...John

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Favre" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 10:15 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] How Do I Mount a Hard Drive in a 5.25 Bay / Gain in
Performance from Single Raptor Drive?


> I am trying to figure out how to mount a 3.5" device
> in a 5.25" bay.  I have looked all over newegg's site
> and can't find what I need.  I have an Enlight case
> that has the tooless hardware bays.  Can any of you
> give me a link to what it is I am asking for?  I don't
> know the correct terminology I suppose.
>
> Also, I just purchased and mounted a 74 gb WD 10,000
> rpm SATA drive and have noticed no performance gain
> over my regular IDE drive.  I checked the ABIT website
> and they are telling me that in order to see any load
> time gains, I would have to run a RAID0 configurartion
> with matching drives.  Is this accurate advice?  I was
> under the impression that even a single drive that was
> SATA would offer a faster data transfer than an IDE
> drive w/an 8mb cache.
>
> Finally, if I do need to set up an array, any advice
> on doing the setup or any sites you could point me to
> that gives accurate info.  I will be buying a second
> OEM drive and used the data lifeguard software
> previously to get my computer to recognize the drive.
>
>
> Any advice or direction woudl be appreciated.  My AN-7
> motherboard has the latest Silicon Image drivers
> installed for the SATA Sil3112.
>
>
>
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