On 9/19/25 9:30 PM, Tim via users wrote:
On Fri, 2025-09-19 at 10:40 -0600, home user via users wrote:
When I ordered my desktop, I was told by 2 different salesmen that cases
are no longer made with 5 1/4 inch slots. So I cannot do a blu-ray
drive with a SATA interface. I had to order an external drive, and
everything that I saw was limited to USB-2 connections.
I'm somewhat surprised at that. Maybe their supplier doesn't offer
them. They're certainly around.
But do they really mean cases without the space for CD/DVD/BluRay
drives poking through the front of the chassis, or are they thinking of
internal hard drive bays?
HDDs are getting less common, and they're the only drive left that is
that size inside the domesticated PC. All the SSDs I see are either
3.5 inch laptop sized, or the ones that fit onto the motherboard M.2
header.
You're one size off on those. You haven't been able to get a 5.25" hard
drive for a very long time. Only CD/DVD drives (and removable storage
devices) are that size. Regular HDDs are 3.5" and laptop drives and
SSDs are generally 2.5".
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