Does this accommodate your standard optical disk drive or you do need a slim/slot-load drive?
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A standard optical drive is fine. If you have a very tall CPU heatsink AND a long drive there might be problems. I'm using the stock heatsink (3770k), somewhat tall RAM, and a standard sized blu-ray burner and everything fits just fine.
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Standard will work. I put a dead drive in the case to mount the drive cover. Drive needs to be in case for you to be able to use the cover.
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This case accepts standard desktop form factor optical drives which are 5.25" but doesn't have a full size opening on the case front. It does have an opening large enough for the tray to eject and it comes with an aluminium bezel that you can attach to "any" drive.
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The case is designed to use a standard 5.25" optical drive. A stick-on face plate is included to attach to your optical drive's own face plate. Note the CPU cooler must be low profile (70mm) with an optical drive installed in the chassis.
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Your standard drive fits, but you will have limited space behind the drive if you plan to use an aftermarket tall cpu cooler. A metal faceplate comes with this case that you mount to the front bezel of the drive with an adhesive strip. You will have to use it or deal with a small gap between the drive bezel and the case face. Just takes some lining up so the drive ejects properly.
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It will take a standard optical drive. It comes with a concealing faceplate for that smooth look, but it is not required.
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The drive itself uses a SATA connector, and shows up in Windows as a standard cd-rom drive. I didn't have to load any specific drivers, it uses the generic one supplied with Windows 7. It will probably be seen my Mac OS X, but I have no idea whether or not the OS or apps would let it read Blu-Ray content.
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HDMI: Yes Optical Drive Type: DVD-Writer Optical Media Supported: DVD-RAM/R/RW
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No this internal drive is for a tower system with a SATA port. you will most likely need a USB external optical drive.
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From a brief look, it appears the E521 has the required 5.25" drive bay (2 total, though your current optical drive may need to come out) and an SATA connector on the motherboard (the service manual says connect CD/DVD drive to SATA2 or SATA3 labeled connectors on the motherboard, SATA0 and SATA1 are for HDD). The E521 does appear to be an older model but the drivers says they work back to XP. I installed my LG drive on a Win7 system.
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I have 2 - 3.5" drives and one 2.5" drive. (The 2.5" drive isn't bolted in, just rests on top of the optical drive. You may be able to squeeze another but it is tight with the optical drive installed.
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Yup. It obviously only takes slim, drawerless drives. You can see the slit in the front of the case. Warning from experience, I would not suggest this. The case is pretty cramped, sacrificing function for form it seemed, thus leading to some clearance issues with that giant bracket which ONLY gains you a disc reader. My experience with out a disc reader has been ok thus far, and since its the way the markets moving you might as well ditch it and get it over with.
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no it doesn't have optical drive. because that asus model its now im using.
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The external bays will hold an optical drive without any problems. I have a Dvd rom installed.
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It doesn't come with an optical drive, but there are slots for optical drives behind the front cover that swings open.
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no optical drive - it is optional comes with StorageSolid State Drive Capacity: 256 GBSolid State Drive Interface: mini-SATA
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Using the slim optical drive(slot), Slim Optical + 3.5-Inch Hard Drive Mounting Bracket for 5.25-Inch and (2)2.5 to 3.5 mounting bracket I was able to achieve exactly what you're asking,
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No this case doesn't support an internal optical drive. I have this case an I use an external optical drive for it. The case is amazing though!
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This might be a very very late answer but yes, most SSD drives have an adapter to make them fit into a standard HDD slot.As for the people that say DVD slots are also 3.5" that is incorrect, the Optical Drive slots are 4.5" whereas the Floppy/HDD and accessory slots are 3.5", Hope this helps!
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A optical drive is dvd or cd rom that you connect threw a usb or docking station. The tc4200 does not have dvd or cd drive on the unit. So you would need a optical drive.
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no, do not bring a unit of optical disk, optical disk drives looking for usb ports
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Yes. I used it in mine and it's been a great tool. Much better than the optical drive. I did have some connection troubles with it and therefore it was not stable enough to be the boot drive. I therefore use it for all storage material and the internal HD just for applications.