New Build in about 10 years, wow lots changed

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#307105 19-Sep-2023 21:21

I am 49 years old...

I used to rebuild PC's like every 2 years, and rebuild everything from case up, have loads of PC's sitting in storage doing nothing, a hoarder.

The latest rebuild which was in the last few days was interesting because it was the biggest gap I guess in rebuilding.

For the first time in probably since K5 days went with AMD for CPU with a nice CPU.

I bought a corsair 5000D Airflow case. highly recommended.

What was weird, no spots for 3.5 inch hard drives, or 5.4 inch cd drives, dvd drives, Bluray drives... nothing....

Apparently that is normal these days? what?

It's so weird. :)

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#3129541 19-Sep-2023 22:04

in like the 4th or 5th pic down on this page, HDD is hidden out of sight in the PSU compartment

https://www.corsair.com/us/en/p/pc-cases/cc-9011211-ww/5000d-airflow-tempered-glass-mid-tower-atx-pc-case-white-cc-9011211-ww

for spinning disk drives you need a full tower or a different mid tower (they exist)

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#3129628 20-Sep-2023 08:56

Kind of like so many mobo's cutting the number of PCI-e connectors right down.

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#3129629 20-Sep-2023 09:02

Kilack:

I bought a corsair 5000D Airflow case. highly recommended.

What was weird, no spots for 3.5 inch hard drives, or 5.4 inch cd drives, dvd drives, Bluray drives... nothing....

That case has 2x 3.5" trays and mounts for 3x 2.5" drives. They're well hidden away though.

As for 5.25" bays, most new cases these days won't come with any slots for these. But there are still a few out there if it's important to you.

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#3129921 20-Sep-2023 20:07

rb99:

Kind of like so many mobo's cutting the number of PCI-e connectors right down.

Yeah thanks, I think I ripped that out early and it got lost and then thought I had no space for some 3.5 inch spinners for mass storage.

Looking a lot better now.

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#3129925 20-Sep-2023 20:13

rb99:

Kind of like so many mobo's cutting the number of PCI-e connectors right down.

Yeah, have noticed that.

It has decreased big time.

Regards,

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#3129929 20-Sep-2023 20:33

I got a new case a year ago, it fits at least six 3.5 drives, and a DVD sized drive. You just have to choose the case that fits your needs.

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#3129980 21-Sep-2023 08:01

While I've kept eye on things and done the occasional "fresh" build, nothing has been for me :D Until recently when I built the system in my signature.

Its amazing how fast some things have changed over the last few years, yet some things have not changed.

Gone are the days of my Amiga ;) Still have the original 120MB SCSI drive for it though in working condition ;)

I love the fact you can get smaller parts now, helps keep case size down, and assists with cooling by not having entire sections covered with HDD's and cabling.

Optical drives are a thing of the past.... I do have one installed but only gets used for the very occasional CD burn.

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#3129982 21-Sep-2023 08:06

I have the same case, yeah it looks beautiful but when you have to swap out a 3.5 hard drive it's a pain. But that doesn't happen often.

I still need a bluray drive so I run mine in an external enclosure.

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#3129987 21-Sep-2023 08:22

Seems odd. The 5000D Airflow has space for two 3.5 inch drives and 4 2.5 inch drives.

There’s approximately zero demand for optical drives these days so it’s pointless for
manufacturers to put a space there, particularly on gaming focused high airflow cases.

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#3130009 21-Sep-2023 09:08

and I've got two optical drives in mine. Each to his / her / their own etc etc...

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#3130063 21-Sep-2023 11:00

IMO its time for the 3.5 and 2.5 bays to go, anything slow storage is better served on a NAS, and more m2 nvme slots is what you want for local storage.

I would like to see a standardization on the placement of the power supply connectors for the motherboard since so often on builds I have had them right beside a place that was not a hole to the cable management side so its had to go along somewhat before it could get to the back side and out of sight.

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#3130085 21-Sep-2023 11:17

I bought a Lancool 216 this year and I love it, I like having the 3.5" and 2.5" slots and areas.

I bought a new 4tb HDD 5400rpm as a junk drive for my hoarding.
I picked my case because it had so many drive install options.

So imo buy what features you want / use.
I have 2 nvme drives but I like have slow cheap storage too.

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#3130096 21-Sep-2023 11:38

I have a home server that all my "large" storage media goes into. Desktop has 2x nVME drives, and a SATA SSD. So no 3.5" required...... Im actually going to look for a new case around Xmas, something compact. I've got an ok DeepCool case, but would still like something more streamlined.....

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#3130215 21-Sep-2023 16:04

xpd:

Optical drives are a thing of the past....

Just ordered a new BDXL drive while I still can!

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#3130299 21-Sep-2023 22:01

heh seems a bit divided....

I do have a BD internal drive that I do tend to use a bit, i tend to rip the UDS's into digital form.. then stream them.

I do understand times move on, I guess after not having built up a pc for ages it was weird not to have a bunch a fans in the front blowing onto loads of 3.5 drives of 5.25 optical drives.

I have always gone with Intel in the past, regret going with AMD this time.

So many issues, its hard to tell what hardware, or drivers or what is causing the issues, but have never had this many issues ever with intel.

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