I'm confused by the 5.25" dimension, what part of it is actually 5.25"? I have 3.5" HDD and standard trays on my tower, will this work?
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it's 5,25 to put on the bay, 5,25" bay in the case.... you put it there and you use it with 3,5 hdd...
1549314
yes 5.25" is the bay size of your desktop PC which is CD drom drive. the tray is fitting into that bay and 3.5" HD fitting into that tray
1549315
The face is 5.25". It fits in an optical drive bay on the front of the computer, and the 3.5" HDD gets inserted through the front door.
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Yes, it will work with the 3.5" hard drive! The 5.25" are the outside dimensions, that will fit on a CD ROM or DVD bay which are 5.25"
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Most desktop computers have from two to four 5.25" drive bays for DVD or CD drives, or in my case Removable SATA type hard drives. You can find the removable drive bay for the 5.25" bay slot on Amazon, although the SATA bays make the most sense, you might find some for SCSI or even older technology. The width of the bay is 5.25, while the 3.5" HDD slips in through a latching gate.
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The 5.25 dimension is the size for the standard (CD/DVD) slot in your tower that the entire unit mounts in - it uses the same space a cd/dvd drive. Once mounted it has a door swings open easily to hot swap 3.5 drives. I have four of these units in various servers and would recommend them to anyone. Hope this helps...
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it will work if this statement in the advertisement is true:"Supports Standard Desktop 3.5-Inch SATA or IDE Desktop Hard Drives"
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If it's in a desktop PC then you should have a 3.5 inch form factor drive. If that is the case this will work. This is a 3.5 form factor IDE drive.
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Greetings, No, this model does not support a 2.5" drive. The 'H' models will support 2.5" drive expansion; not currently available in the US. Best regards, MITXPC
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Yes, it's 3.5" and SATA. You can find more information on the drive itself at this link: Seagate 1TB Desktop HDD SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive (ST1000DM003)
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the 3.5" slot is the correct size for all normal HDDs and DVD drives. most likely your case only has 3.5" slots, so you will need an additional 2.5" bracket. the SSD will screw into the bracket and then the bracket will slide into the 3.5" slot.
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Hard drives are of standard sizes (3.5" & 2.5"). Yours is probably 3.5" if it came from a desktop computer. It will fit standard external cases.
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Has there actually ever been a 5.25" HDD manufactured in the last 20 years? I don't believe I have ever seen a 5.25" HDD. I have HDDs sitting around that date back to about 1990 and all are 3.5". even my old IBM SCSI drives. I'd get a ruler if I were you and measure the drive.
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Take out a ruler. It requires 12 inches measuring back toward the front of the computer with connectors on. This means for a mid-tower, you should not have hard drives, other bays or frame components nearby. I use a full tower but have hard drives directly in the front of the computer, and its close.
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This is a notebook/laptop 2.5" drive! For desktops you should be looking at 3.5", unless your desktop is different and requires a 2.5" drive (like an iMac).
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My tower is 13.75 x 23 x 29.25 inches (L x W x H). it fit in there fine. Thing with this power supply is it was DOA. pins were faulty so i returned it, but hey if it works for you then great!
1000380
Don't listen to those who say 3.5 inch HDD. I jhave used these and now SDDs for over 8 years in my desktops and for those I build for othwers. Theya re awesome. less power, less heat, less noise. Go for it.
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Hi Robert, they should fit the bays accesible from the outside of this servers, actually I think they are pretty standard, there are bays for 3.5" (this size is used in most PCs) disks and for 2.5" (and this is used by most laptops) disks, so if your server uses the big disks this should work, otherwise look for a 2.5" tray, hope this helps.
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This item is for converting a 2.5" drive into a 3.5" bay for use in a desktop computer internally. If you wanted to use this as an external drive as you asked, you technically could do this if you also bought an extra, external drive enclosure for a 3.5" drive. I have to ask though, why do that when you can just buy an external drive enclosure for a 2.5" drive instead of this Icy Dock + a 3.5 " drive bay and essentially double-converting it?
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It is the standard 2.5" hard drive. the "2.5 inches" refers to the diameter of the platters inside the drive, not the external dimension.
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The one I have is for 3.5", Data capacity is 720KB, 1.25MB, 1.44MB (Formatted). Have not found a drive for the 5.25" disk yet myself.
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I installed mine in my desktop machine and it works great. I liked it so much I purchased another one for my laptop and it works there as well. The only catch is that you laptop has the space, check and see if what is already in there is a 2.5" HD, if so then it should be no problem.