Talk:Drive bay

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[edit] Full-height

"They were 2" high..." Are you sure about this? I admit I'm bad at estimating, but that seems too small for these drives. --Ntg 04:10, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

It is, they'r ~3.5", I just measured them. Corrected as appropriate. Boffy b 23:15, 2005 Jan 31 (UTC)

[edit] LCD

Some people put LCD display into the 5.25" drive bay. The LCD display reports CPU fan rotation speed, CPU temperature, motherboard temperature, etc or other stuff.

Article system monitor.

[edit] Actual sizes

There must be standards somewhere regarding the actual sizes of these drive bays. But who would have them now? ---Ransom (--208.25.0.2 (talk) 20:07, 20 November 2007 (UTC))

Looking at the T13/1698D Volume 2 Revision 0 (ATA 8 Parallel Transport), it says it's 5.748" in width and 3.250", 1.634" or 1.020" max in height. This appears correct as on my system between sets of holes, it is a bit more than 1-5/8" (1.625"), and less than 1-11/16" (1.6875"). I do not have a caliper to take exact measurements to confirm. Though the spec I have does appear to get which end of a 5.25" CD-ROM drive has the connectors on wrong, so who knows how reliable this info is. (The also never updated the right header, but did update the left header for the spec version.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.17.45.168 (talk) 09:16, 9 March 2008 (UTC)