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trinity
04-20-2010, 01:36 PM
i lost the alternate cage for in front of the psu on my armor and im in the midst of tearing it apart for paint, will be taking pictures but wont be posting anything until it is done, im however wondering if anyone has an idea as to what i could do for a hard drive cage as i would like to remove the cage behind the original radiator mount.

i find the 7 bays on the front for hdd's are nie impossible to actually use as pulling out the cage is a pain in the *** and im always swapping out drives. it also allows for next to zero cable management on the hard drives.

link to product for pictures:
http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Product.aspx?S=1125&ID=1410
the only thing i can think of currently is keeping the original mounting bracket and cutting out some of the 5.25" bays sides to allow a screw driver to reach the hard drive cage. and maybe using some sort of standoff to hold the fans away from the drives a little bit, then i could turn the drives around

anyways let me know what you guys think, i have plenty of time my board is out to dfi this week for rma.

edit: i have obsolutely no problems cutting steel on the case or doing sheet metal work to create something to hold the drives

Kayin
04-20-2010, 01:44 PM
I can see about getting my friend's Kandalf (same as Armor) cage for you. It might be a few days though...

trinity
04-20-2010, 02:13 PM
i have to many hard drives for that cage anyways, currently have 4, but when im done i'll be upping it to 6, i still use a pair of old ide optical drives so i dont have to worry about the sata ports being occupied

SXRguyinMA
04-20-2010, 04:58 PM
I've got that cage from my armor that I dont use if you want it

trinity
04-20-2010, 09:04 PM
current idea instead of making a new cage or getting the original cage for near the psu, the cut-outs will allow me to use the original cage without having to remove it to change drives

http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/5881/img00092201004202055.jpg
http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/4049/img00091201004202054.jpg

sorry for the terrible image quality all i have right now is my blackberry