What a half height 5.25" drive bay for?

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I bought a case, and it has the standard array of 5.25" 3.5" and a single 2.5" drive bays. It ALSO has a single 5.25" bay, however this bay is about HALF the height of a regular drive bay. What would go in here? The only thing I can think of would be a notebook drive or something, but holding my laptop to it, the drive in my laptop is wider. Is there a name for this odd half-height 5.25" bay?

Here is a listing. It lists the full size bays, but not the smallish one. The very top piece pops out and has brackets to hold something.

http://www.antec.com/product.php?id=704923&fid=4&lan=us

Sidney

Posted 2014-10-24T22:05:56.500

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3Can you link to the case? – Canadian Luke – 2014-10-24T22:08:32.500

3...and/or post a picture of the bay? – cpast – 2014-10-24T22:10:26.363

My hunch is that it's for a slim optical (cd/dvd) drive. – yoonix – 2014-10-24T22:10:40.873

Answers

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It's just a slimline 5.25 inch bay, sometimes refered to as a 12.7mm bay; they are mostly for dvd/cd burners like this one. You can buy adapter products to divide a normal 5.25 inch bay into 2 slimline bays like this one.

Saint Claire

Posted 2014-10-24T22:05:56.500

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1Some USB/Audio/Firewire, etc port panels are offered in half height (slim) – Dave M – 2014-10-25T18:54:38.630

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