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Looks nice. But screwless cases are best used with SATA drives or mobos with 2 or more IDE controllers, because harddisks need to be put in a seperate bay on the bottom of the case. So you can't use 1 IDE cable to connect the harddisk and a dvd drive.
 
Swansen said:
Its real expensive
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very expensive, but it does have the air flow right, you could make a case like it for much less
RH said:
So you can't use 1 IDE cable to connect the harddisk and a dvd drive.
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that's why both my DVDs are on my secondary IDE & also my HDDs are together on the primary & are set to cable select[ot]so i can move a HDD from master to slave without moving the jumper, so, the jumpers don't die[/ot]
 
Additionally, ATA standards only allow access of one device at a time on each channel, so while you can do 2 devices on one channel with IDE, it hurts performance. Additionally, the people more likely to do this won't be dropping $200 on a case. Secondly, SATA is pushing PATA/IDE out the door, and the sharing of devices is moot at that point, given that there's only one device per channel.
 
B said:
ATA standards only allow access of one device at a time on each channel, so while you can do 2 devices on one channel with IDE, it hurts performance
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really, years ago i heard that connecting a fast & a slow device (HDD & a ROM drive) slowed down the faster device, but i thought that was fixed with the introduction of ATA33, but, it does make logical sense, i'd have thought ATA66 would have completely removed the problem, cos, each IDE device has 40 separate connectors, don't they ?
 
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