- Sep 27, 2007
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First off, thanks to Anandtech and assassin24 for rolling the HTPC forum out; definitely an excellent addition.
I am curious what people put in their second external 5.25" bay. Clearly the first bay houses a BD drive and the "conventional wisdom" is to add a 3.5" card reader to the second but I'm curious if the card reader is actually all that useful. Granted I'm not a photography person by any stretch of the imagination but I'm guessing that's what it's for: being able to quickly throw up a photo slideshow off an SD card or something. I use a USB card reader for my desktop and the rare instances I dig it out are merely so I can dump stuff to a loose microSD card before replacing the one in my phone/tablet.
Considering the fact that space is at such a premium in an HTPC build, what do you have in that second 5.25" bay? A 3.5" card reader? A hard drive? Secondary BD/DVD/HD-DVD drive? Cable storage?
Thanks in advance!
I am curious what people put in their second external 5.25" bay. Clearly the first bay houses a BD drive and the "conventional wisdom" is to add a 3.5" card reader to the second but I'm curious if the card reader is actually all that useful. Granted I'm not a photography person by any stretch of the imagination but I'm guessing that's what it's for: being able to quickly throw up a photo slideshow off an SD card or something. I use a USB card reader for my desktop and the rare instances I dig it out are merely so I can dump stuff to a loose microSD card before replacing the one in my phone/tablet.
Considering the fact that space is at such a premium in an HTPC build, what do you have in that second 5.25" bay? A 3.5" card reader? A hard drive? Secondary BD/DVD/HD-DVD drive? Cable storage?
Thanks in advance!