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Hard drive help

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This is my internal hard drive. It's in the mail ATM from amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/WD3200JS-320GB-72 ... s=wd3200js



I would like to know what kind of bay or rack I can get for it to slide into my case (I have an xblade atx aluminum case). I would REALLY want to know what the slides are called that my other hdd has in my tower. They are 2 little arms (not connected in any way) that have 2 little pegs thg go in each side of the hdd in te little holes, they just pop in and the hard drive then slides in to the bay. I wish there was a better way to explain it. I want to know what those little arms are called.
Thanks for reading!
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They're usually called HDD Rails or something similar.

But, you said you were using a variant of this case right? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6811156286

if so it looks like it has an HDD latching system on the HDD rack.
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6811105113
That's my case, but mine is silver.
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http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm? ... 038&page=5
In the first picture on that page, Those are the exact rails I need, but I don't know where to get tem
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Was it a pre-built or did you buy the case? My previous PC was a pre-built and I ran into this exact same issue, I currently have a 1TB 3.5" drive sitting on my desk doing a whole lot of nothing because I can't be bothered to spend a day with a DIY solution, and I couldn't get HDD rails for my case to properly install it. If you purchased the case separately however, it should've come with additional rails. Your next best hope I believe is to contact the company that manufactures the case and ask if you can either purchase or be given additional rails for your case.
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I'm in the EXACT situation as you, prebuilt case and i cant find the rails for it. As soon as that hard drive gets here, it'll be sitting in my desk until I can get it in my computer.
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http://www.amazon.com/Dell-87VYR-Hard-d ... ET7LF39VU2

I found these, they might fit, i'll try them out
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