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This particular installation is for my Gaming rig, it will depend on the case that you use, so you may have to improvise! Now a couple of items are required to install the hard drive ‘bungee mod’. One is a 1 metre length of elastic or ‘shock cord’ which can be bought by the metre from most good DIY or hardware stores. The other is ‘P’ shaped cable clips that are a bit harder to find (I ended up getting them from the local hardware shop at the bottom of my road.)
For this installation, I removed the hard drive & floppy drive enclosures inside the case (bearing in mind you can’t do this with any PC case. I didn’t need them, (who installs floppy drives in their self build PC’s these days???). to begin, tie a large knot in one end of the shock cord & thread it through one on the holes in the 5.25” drive bay.
The next step is to screw the ‘P’ clips to the hard drive & thread the shock cord through each clip.
Tie the other end to the case when finished & the installed hard drive should look like this.
Suspending the hard drive in this way will isolate all vibration from the rest of the case & make the hard drive quieter in operation. For the Media PC build the hard drives looked like this. (I used sewing elastic for this mod as the smaller drives were lighter)
The next step is to install the Optical disc drives. The Optical drive in this build are an LG optical drive capable of playing back both HD-DVD & Blu-ray discs, it also doubles as a DVD writer. the other is a Pioneer DVD writer which are cheap & reliable in my experience. Just slot both into a spare 5.25” drive bay & screw it in place. The photo is from my gaming rig build again but the principle of fitting an optical drive into a PC Case is more or less the same again.
Once the power supply, optical & hard drives are in place, slide the motherboard tray back into the case.
Now its just a case of screwing the motherboard into the case, connecting the power supply leads to the motherboard & the graphics card, the hard & optical drives (& the case fans too!) These connections vary from motherboard to motherboard, I would refer to the instruction manual for the motherboard in question. Here are both Optical drives installed inside the desktop case.
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