Do they make bare-bones half hight drive, that could fit (or be made to fit) in a regular 5.25" bay? A half-height CDR and DVD drive in my shuttle would be ideal, and it would look cool.
Yes, you can (or could) get half height optial drives (I've got a slimline case here that will only take half heights), but IIRC they don't come cheap 2 laptop drives with a modded bezel migh be a cheaper option?
Technically the average modern drive is half height. In the olden days of the IBM PC XT, drives were 'kin huge and weighed a ton and the bigest hard drive you could get was a whopping 10Mb. Just being pedantic, as you mean half the current standard height, I'd agree with Supercool, go for laptop drives and mod the bezel.
full height drives r huge and som more modern HDD were used in servers (SCSI naturally). just think of 2 hard drives put on top of each other and quadruple the weight and u r close. half heights r what we all use now and slimlines r what r used in laptops. u gota remember 2 find som adaptors cos slimlines have different intercaces but adaptors 4 them 2 IDE r about. i guess the best bet would b 2 buy som slimlines or a single combo drive. u cant get drives as wide as a FDD cos a CD wouldnt fit
