Hey, I'm hoping someone can help me out with this. I just bought a 12TB Seagate Skyhawk 3.5" HDD and didn't realize the >6TB drives are larger in width and don't have the middle holes on the side and unfortunately this will not fit in the 200R case I bought in 2017. I plan to use this drive to back up my computer and the 12TB external network drive that has a bunch of media.
I thought to buy an adapter to install the 3.5" drive in one of the three 5.25" optical drive bays I'm not using, however, after over an hour of research and reading reviews for every bay adapter I can find on Amazon and other sites a reviewer always says the same thing: These don't fit the high capacity drives even if the description says they're universal and fit all 3.5" drives.
I'm looking for advice and if anyone else has had success with a bay adapter or has come up with some other solution. I'm not super handy and I don't have a 3D printer. My next option is probably going to be finding an enclosure to make this an external USB drive since I don't need it to be in my case, I just thought this would be easier and cheaper.
Thanks for your help!