>Internal 5.25" card reader Why are these so popular?

I don't see a need for em anymore
Whats better is a 5.25 inch hotswap drive bay or a fan controller (if your case doesn't have one built in)

>>56138141
i think because people get a huge boner out of being able to read ANYTHING.
they imagine a multiverse of possibilities in which they could save the day or win at life by being the guy who can fetch data from or apply data to an esoteric storage medium.

its not unlike the cats who go balls deep with crypto thinking that they're keeping anyone but their own future selves from the data they're guarding. people, more often than not, simply are not practical.

>>56138141
Not really much else to do with 5.25 bays.

>>56138180
>he doesnt use encryption
laughingsluts.jpg

It's handy not to have to hunt down a USB reader in my desk, and it's not like I was using the slot for anything else. I have 6 of them anyways.

>>56138410
>he thinks his furry porn is important enough to encrypt

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>>56138141
I don't get it, why wouldn't they be?

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>>56138461
all 24TB of it

>>56138468
Because there are better uses for 5.25" bays?

>>56138498
Because you definitely can't remove the card reader?

>>56138498
D-do you have a Mac Pro anon?

>>56138556
No, a SuperMicro whitebox.

>>56138538
No you cant retard, once you install it, it is in there permanently and you will regret the decision for the rest of the time you own that chassis.

>>56138593
>No you cant retard
Holy fucking moronic

>>56138593
It's a hackintosh or I'm talking shit?

>>56138618
Notice the battery in the menu bar, that's a MacBook

>>56138618
The RAID card has its own network controller, and the box it is in runs ESXi (virtualization OS), I took a screenshot from my laptop.

>>56138607
They are installed with epoxy, you're never going to get that card reader out of your chassis once it is installed.

>>56138631
Oh, crap. I'm so accostumed to my Mac Pro that I don't know the other icons.

>>56138425
But you're wasting a USB 3 port that could be used for other stuff

>>56138639
>They are installed with epoxy
Not all of them. Every one I've ever encountered just came out. Your anecdotal experience is not universal.

>>56138656
Everyone installs card readers and other drive bay accessories with epoxy, stop trolling the noobs here. They wont want to regret installing one until they buy a new chassis.

>>56138675
Clearly it's not everyone. I've dealt with 4 different prebuilts with card readers and not one was epoxied in.

Go eat a dick.

>>56138698
>prebuilts
I dont care if the shop you bought your shitbox from didnt assemble it properly. When you buy a card reader, it is shipped with a tube of epoxy for installation purposes. Everyone uses it, otherwise the cards will fall out.

>>56138712
Wtf are you on about. What pajeet store did you buy your shit from? I've installed so many card readers and have never had to use epoxy

>>56138712
>implying I've ever bought a prebuilt
Fuck off, you little twat. Take your shitty bait with you.

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>>56138751
>I've installed so many card readers and have never had to use epoxy
why? why not install something usefull in those slots like pic related?

>>56138755
>shitty bait
it isnt that shitty if i've gotten this many (You)s.

>>56138786
Hey man, people want their sd card readers for their pictures and shit. I just give them what they want.

Why do case manufacturers include like 4+ of these bays? They are worthless, I don't even have an optical drive in my builds anymore. Should make that space free for more hard drives, maybe leave one 5.25 bay.

>>56138825
>i dont know what a mobile rack is

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>having a case with bays in the first place

>>56138825
I keep a DVD RW drive in my desktop simply for legacy reasons. If I could find a 3.5" floppy drive to put in I would just so I could play some old dos games.

>>56138639
>They are installed with epoxy
>he installs hardware with glue

Just because you're a retard, doesn't mean the rest of us are

>>56139897
then why are they shipped with tubes of epoxy you retard?

>>56139920
I have never once seen a bay device shipped with tubes of epoxy. They've always had screw holes like an optical drive.

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>>56139950
>I have never once seen a bay device shipped with tubes of epoxy.
Just because you bought some cheap chink shit card reader which didnt come with epoxy isnt my fault. Even newegg sells card readers with epoxy.

>>56139996
I see three little screw holes on the side
why dont you just use those

>>56140010
Those holes are where you inject the epoxy so the cards dont fall out.

for the majority of people, it probably comes with their prebuilt. then, when aunt nanny wants to look at her holiday photos on the computer (cause the screen's bigger, and her eyes aren't what they used to be) she can just plug the little itsy-bitsy thing from the camera into one of the little itsy-bitsy slits in the computer (without caring about such arcane details as sd, XD microSD), and then some younger family member might even navigate her to her holiday pics in windows explorer.

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>>56138712
Do you see those screw holes on the sides?

>>56140094
Theyre for injecting epoxy retard

I know I'm being rused but I just can't stop

>>56138786
Damn son, all them ports.

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>>56140149
I know, all full of epoxy.

>>56140131
>look up how to install 5.25 insch card reader
>see https://youtu.be/hizcop9ZemY
>actual screw holes

The fact that you have a shitty one that cannot be mounted with screws doesn't mean that every card reader is like that.

>>56140282
>I dont know how to properly install a card reader so the cards dont fall out
>So i'm going to trust someone on youtube rather than some guy who has a storage subsystem which probably costed more than everything in my room combined.

>>56140313
>card readers have screw holes that align with the screw holes of the 5.25inch bay
>look up "how to install an internal card reader"
>see http://www.ehow.com/how_2153205_install-internal-card-reader.html , epoxy is still not mentioned
>implying the card reader or the cards will magically fall off if you mount the card reader with screws
>implying what some guy on a mongolian basket viewing site says is more credible than what the rest of the internet says

>>56140397
>i still cant explain why newegg sells card readers with installation epoxy as shown by >>56139996

>>56138141
my case only had one front usb connector

>>56140430
>the fact that you have a shitty one that cannot be mounted with screws doesn't mean that every card reader is like that.

Yes, just because there is a reader that comes with epoxy for people who want to attach it permanently means that every internal card reader cannot be mounted with screws even when there are videos and articled showing people mounting them with screws.

>>56138825
just put a 5.25" to 3.5" hard drive tray in your bays so you have extra storage space. Or you can stack em with SSDs.

>>56140468
>>the fact that you have a shitty one that cannot be mounted with screws doesn't mean that every card reader is like that.
I dont have a card reader, I actually epoxied useful things in to my chassis like 8x enterprise SSDs.

>>56140492
Good for you. You can practically mount every component that has screw holes with epoxy if you want to but that doesn't change the fact that those are screw holes and they are meant to take in screws.

>I dont have a card reader
So you expect me to trust you and not the rest of the internet on how internal card readers are mounted when you don't even have one?

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\>>56140564
>So you expect me to trust you and not the rest of the internet on how internal card readers are mounted when you don't even have one?
Did you even read the article you linked? It clearly mentioned to install it with epoxy.

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>>56140602
you get one because you're dedicated enough to shoop images

>>56138645
Do you not see the absurd number of USB ports on that thing?

>>56140602
>being this butthurt that you start wasting your time shooping images
(you)

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>>56140654
Here you go

>>56140638
Mostly USB 2.0 ports, the other USB 3 port, and a 2.4A charging port.

>>56140165
Oh shiet. What is your next course of action?!

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>>56138593
>No you cant retard, once you install it, it is in there permanently and you will regret the decision for the rest of the time you own that chassis.

cause I got cards to read nigger

>>56138141
What else is there to put in a 3.5" bay?

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>caring about wasting 1(one) 5.25" bay
>not having a LITERALLY unlimited amount of them

I have card reader back then but complete dead now, I only put my sd cards into laptop now(my camera and stuff now all micro sd and sd card)

Really want that hub gazillion reader and front panel.

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Better question is why would anyone want an external molex and external internal sata connector?

>>56138141
Noob here, how do these work? It sits in a 5.25" drive bay and plugs into a SATA port? And you get, what, six USB ports and a bunch of esoteric card readers. Can you use them all at once? This could be nice just to get extra USB ports if you have a lot of peripherals.

Are there PCIe versions too?

>>56141543
Would be pretty useful for working with backup drives.

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>>56141601
>>56141543
this, lot of motherboard only usb3/c now no more esata connector.

>>56141585
no do you have front panel usb? that's where to plug into/ motherboard. pic related. some of sata port need to plug into sata motherboard.

>>56141543
That seems extremely useful if you have to move data to/from hard drives that aren't in an enclosure.

>>56138141
I just had an ODD in my 5.25".

>>56141402
It's more to do with losing that 5gbps USB 3 port.

Most motherboards only have 1 or 2 connectors on them.

>>56138645
I don't have this particular one, mine just uses a 2.0 header and molex power.

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>>56138213
Well you can have more drives or a beer holder

Because 5.25 bays are fucking useless

>>56138141
I'm guessing there's a fair few people who have some need for a card reader, don't like having too many external peripherals hanging off their PCs, and have nothing better to do with one of the 5.25-inch drive bays.

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>>56141601
>using molex to power sata drives

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How come this isn't more common?

There are models where the HDD lay down, so that you don't bumb into it by accident.

>>56138156
I have one build in. I think they call them PWM.

>>56138180
Holy shit that's literally me, are you a wizard?
>bought a multi-card reader and bluray burner so I could read from and write to any kind of medium
>tfw never using them, only ever downloading and uploading
I image it might be useful one day but it really isn't. None of my phones even have expandable storage

>>56143174
Because real hard drives aren't sluts that show their insides to anyone.

>>56141543
For using an internal drive externally

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>>56143174
Another example.

>>56143132
>what are molex to sata power converters

>>56143466
Hence the image

>>56143285
because there aren't many people who need that feature. if you're regularly pulling data from multiple harddrives, it makes more sense to have a NAS

>>56138141
>Why are these so popular?

Because desktops don't have card readers built in otherwise, and those stupid dangling external card readers look retarded.

>>56143601
Not having to deal with enclosures soinds nice to me t.bh. Also setting up a NAS is way more bothersome than just inserting a disk to a dock like that.

T. different anon

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>>56143790
Get the thumb stick version

>>56141543
This can be useful for a various things, from the top of my head
- having an optical drive housed outside your computer, for example if you have one but rarely use it
- same for external 3.5" HDDs
- also useful if you need to probe some internal piece of molex powered hardware, like reading values off a HDD PCB for debugging errors for data restoring and such

It's one of those things you'd only use a few times, but they are a godsend when you have to.

Actually, since I almost never use my optical drives, this would be great for me - my case has 4x 5.25 slots, I could put a 3-slot 4 bay HDD holder inside, and that card reader with sata out on the remaining slot. Then only connect my optical drive the few times I actually need to use it.

>>56143870
The microusb inside the normal usb reminds me of Alien

>>56143601
But the benefits of a removable drive on life expectancy vs a NAS drive constantly spinning.

I can't believe everyone here fell for that guy's bait
Are you really this retarded now, /g/?

>>56144171
Couldn't they throw in a few eSata ports on there or something to fill up the empty space? Or make it into a drawer with the ports on the side

>>56144336
The ones with four usb ports require 2 usb cables. This one was the cheapest that allowed me to add front usb 3 to an old case, at full speed.

>>56140019
Mate, I think those are screw holes and you can alternatively use epoxy, that's just me.

>>56138141

They break in like a year. I just tell people to get the usb ones.

>>56143947
>>56143870
was literally gonna post the same thing

>>56144493
>replace el cheapo Chinese capacitors with quality Japanese capacitors folded over countless times
>lasts forever

>>56144171
>Wasting USB3 on a mouse.

>>56144646
>he has not enough USB3 ports

>>56140165
that's a big porn stash

>>56144493
...which break in even less time.

>>56144685
i have no usb3 devices

>>56144171
You can always tell you've got the best Chinese quality when they use that font.

>>56144685
>7 USB 3.0 connectors and one USB 3.1
>have one USB 3.0 zip disquette

Really makes you think.

>>56144646
It wasn't doing anything else and the usb 2 ones on the top can't be seen sitting down. I only use it temporarily when I'm in bed.

Cant use the epoxy on the screws?