Can the 2 - 5.25 drive ports on the front be used for adding external devises like fan controllers and memory card readers or must it be DVD roms ?
767951
As I recall, the external 5.25" bay has a spring loaded hinged door for use with an optical drive. I think it was not something one could easily remove. The bay also had a plastic button with a hinge for pressing the optical drive's manual tray control. This is one of the reasons I chose to go with a different case.
986559
With the proper adapter don't see why not. Look for a 2.5 inch to 5.25 inch drive bay adapter.
1565352
There are four drive bays on the front of the case for installing removable media drives or accessory panels. I have a DVD drive in one bay, and a USB/card reader panel in another. I haven't used the other two bays.
111935
Yes. Those are two little doors on the front. One has extra usb slots and connections, the other i the cd/dvd-rom drive.
2045400
Will only fit 3.5" drives. You have to get your own adapters if you want to fit 2.5" drives.
206966
It features three External 5.25" Drive Bays that allow you to add CD/DVD ROM/Writer drives, two external 3.5" drive bays, and four internal 3.5" hidden bays for incorporating add-on hard disc drives. No Fans but spots for fans front and back The APEX PC-389-C supports mounting of a 90mm rear exhaust fan and an 80mm front intake fan for the ultimate cooling performance.
1107597
As long as it is 5.25 inch, yes you can. You can install up to 3 of those drives. You can also install your OS using a USB drive.
1335203
No, you can not. The device takes 3.5 inch drives and can not use 2.5 inch drives.
1707829
this case has 5 5.25 inch bays in it, meaning that it could support 5 optical drives if you really wanted it to. You could also have a drawer, a usb hub, a card reader, and an upgraded fan controller if you wanted it. I highly recommend buying it.
374525
Yes. That motherboard will accept a type 2280 M.2 card, which this drive is.
670689
That should work just find. Remember that it is the OS that will or will not recognize the size of the drive(s), not the hardware in most cases. But motherboard BIOS might be questioned and looked into just to double check
1388645
The usb connectors on this are used for the front usb ports and card reader, the sata connection is only for the esata plug, the unit I purchased did not last but for a few months before it died
1800216
I am not that familiar of this type of components, all I know is that this is an external hard drive. Sorry, I am not of great help to you.
1407331
Yes, it will be fine. The 3.5 can fit into the existing bay that I installed 2 SSD's in. The Solid State drive can then fit sideways on the left side of the DVD bay screwed against that slot in one of those cheap 3.5 to 2.5 conversion racks. I almost did that myself because I wanted an internal card reader. I changed my mind. One bit of advice. I installed a 120mm fan on the inside of the right hand vents. It runs a heck of a lot cooler with that cross ventilation. I am typing on the unit now & it's running really good. I installed 8 GBs of ram and a video card though. Good luck to you.
1178958
This mobo supports SATA devices. pretty much any DVD / drive that is SATA will work, provided your OS is loaded with the driver for that device. Most std DVD & drives for PCs are automatically detected with Windows 7 / 8
1651490
If you have the pci slot available in your computer, it will work fine adding the extra ports you need.
1464923
The sata is only if you want to use its external drive capability. It won't affect the usb or memory card slots.