When Space Is At a Premium….
Sometimes, and for some projects, you just don’t seem to have enough room to mount all the drives you need to get the job done. That happened to me recently, after I removed the drive bays from my PC case for better cooling and then, much later, realized I needed those bays for a couple of extra 2.5” SSDs.
Fortunately, with just a couple of bucks worth of parts and 15 minutes of your time, you can double up the capacity of your case-panel drive mounts. This won’t work for every case, but it will work for many and can help you fit in drives that would otherwise end up hanging loose or being stuck to a panel with double-sided tape. While those mounting options won’t hurt the functionality of your SSD, they certainly aren’t clean and tidy looking, and the double-sided tape can be a pain to remove if you have to make changes. And neither of those options is advisable if you are looking to mount a mechanical drive.
In this video, we take a simple 3.5”-to-2.5” drive bay adapter and a handful of nylon standoffs to add an SSD in a place the case manufacturer never designed it to go. Doubling up my drive capacity got me out of a jam and looks GREAT in the case, so I figured I’d pass it along in the event it helps someone else. This storage hack works for either 2.5″ SSDs or 2.5″ hard drives.
