Installing a 3.5" hard drive in a 2.5" bay?
- by Javawag
I know this question seems ridiculous, but my server (actually a Mini-ITX computer) has a 2.5" hard drive bay and an empty CD-ROM bay underneath it. If I removed the hard drive bay, I could probably mount a 3.5" hard drive in the CD-ROM bay which is unused...
I know it's a big of a kludgy way to do things but it does mean upgrading the hard drive to 2TB is much cheaper.
My question is: are the power requirements of a 3.5" disk the same as 2.5" one? I know the connectors physically will still fit, but I don't want to destroy my server!