For many years, almost a decade and a half, a phenomenon has occurred in the world of PC towers. And it is that the sector has almost completely neglected the use of 5.25 inch grains where the cd or dvd player, as well as those intended for BluRay. why a pc tower now it does not include them?
There are several reasons and many have to do with the laptop industry, a topic we have been discussing recently, but at the same time there are different factors that are customized in a PC tower and in an industry that was looking for something what’s more.
CD and DVD drives in a PC tower, something almost turned off
It is not impossible to find a PC tower with bays 5.25 inches, many manufacturers still include them, but the models are really rare. The main reason for abandoning an entire sector to something essential at the time could be summed up in one word: evolution, but let’s go into the nuances.
obsolescence of storage media
The first reason is the same as that which has occurred in laptop computers, the disuse by users and the industry of a storage method such as CD and DVD, and even Blu-Ray. The industry saw a better life because users stored more and more on USB drives, Internet bandwidth improved a lot around the world, and streaming prevailed. So why continue to use this fragile storage method? The CD or DVD drive no longer makes sense and with it the manufacturers of PC towers have decided to do without these bays.
improve cooling
Not a few of us at the time and with 5.25-inch bays used them for other purposes, like trying to improve PC cooling or putting water pumps in them.
The vertical space which was no longer used for the reasons described was used by the manufacturers to make perforated front panels with support for the fans, so that a new air circulation system was created which has benefited the PC components and also got another key factor which we will see next.
The aesthetics, the PC tower and the drive
A facade full of fans and more or less openwork gave free rein to the imagination with the inclusion of the RGB market
Therefore, any self-respecting PC tower today respects all or part of the sections described here which have chained themselves over time to find the chassis that we currently have on the market and which are undoubtedly much better than those of 15 years ago, both in the quality of the materials, and in the functionality as well as in the aesthetics.
The only problem is that the result of this equation is a bigger increase in the average price, despite the fact that there are brands that compete from the bottom with everything mentioned here, but this has segmented the market into very different ranges with prices starting from a few dollars. to hundreds.
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