I have searched this forum and others and could not find what I am looking for and I am hoping that someone here may be able to help me out. I am looking for a detached 5.25 drive bay. with 2 bays. I am trying to do a "Desk Mod" of sorts and would like to have a 2unit 5.25 drive bay that I could keep about 5 feet from the pc. I have not done much modding and I am not sure if such a thing exists or if I would have to build one. Thanks for the help! -Shades
IIRC an IDE cable can't be run in lengths more than 3 feet, otherwise you'll run into issues with attenuation and noise. For something you're not booting off of, and not doing any huge file transfers, a Firewire drive might work. The best would probably be SATA. I know SATA cables can get pretty long, and I believe that there's also some sort of external SATA interface that might work well.
I wont be booting off of it. I really want a dvd drive and a media drive unit with usb ports & memory card reader and maybe audio
basically what you want is to go and buy 2 external caddies (ala http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/USB-2-Alumini...3QQihZ008QQcategoryZ86759QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) In my experience using HDD caddies for CD-Rom drives ends in dissapointment, so make sure you get one that supports it, otherway round works like a charm though.
