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Just for those of you who don't know what the inside of a P180 looks like:

I'm not sure the drive will actually fit because I have never tried this, but assuming that it will fit: Is putting a hard drive in there a bad idea? I do realize that there isn't much ventilation in that area, but I have run out of places to put them. The drive I would be putting in there would be a green drive used for media storage so it wouldn't run as hot as normal drives.

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Out of desperation and a lack of molex connectkrs, I had to shove a 7200rpm IDE into a fully enclosed floppy bay, and it's been running for years.

Of course i woudln't do that to one of MY hard drives, but mostly out of paranoia.

I had one there for a while, ran pretty hot, but worked fine. In fact, I think the case helped to act as a heatsink for it as I've seen no-airflow HDDs run even hotter...

Cause 6TB isnt enough?!? :P

Could always upgrade your existing disks or run it esata to an enclosure?

I could replace some drives, its what I've been doing for a while now; but if I can get out of replacing one that'd be nice wouldn't it?

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I thought about this some more, and I am guessing it would be fine.

I have used multiple 7200rpm drives in enclosures as tight as that externally so basically 0 airflow also and they don't have any heat problems so I would guess a green drive would be fine.

Media storage. Does that mean it won't actually be used all day?

In that case I'd suggest an external harddisk. Or is there an obvious drawback you really don't want that I'm missing?

Alternatively, there's the expensive option: get yourself a NAS server.


Then again, afaik the size of a normal HDD is the same as a floppy drive, so it should physically fit.

I'm not sure the drive will actually fit because I have never tried this, but assuming that it will fit: Is putting a hard drive in there a bad idea? I do realize that there isn't much ventilation in that area, but I have run out of places to put them. The drive I would be putting in there would be a green drive used for media storage so it wouldn't run as hot as normal drives.

I imagine it would be fine. If you are concerned about heat, bust out a drill and pimp it out, Yo. :wink:

the P180 has 4 5.25 bays. why not take something like
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817994028

And use that.

There is two reasons I don't use one of those things that takes up 4 bays.
1) I wouldn't have room for an optical drive.
2) In the P180 the bottom 5.25 bay is separated from the top three.

But I am using one in the top three bays:


Trust me when I say I have exhausted all other spaces for hard drives except the empty floppy bay.

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