3x Slim DVD Blu-ray 9.5mm to 5.25” bay

I recently got a NAS and wanted to backup my entire Blu-ray and DVD collection to view them via Jellyfin. However, my PC only has two 5.25” bays, which is not ideal. To speed things up, I decided to buy some 9.5mm Slim Blu-ray and cheap DVD Laptop drives from eBay to rip multiple discs with MakeMKV at once.

To achieve this, I had to design a nice case that fits as many slim drives as possible into a 5.25” bay. And here it is, 3 optical drives per 5.25” bay! The 9.5mm slim drives are standard, so any of them (Pioneer, LG, Hitachi, HP, LiteOn, …) should fit inside the modules.

Easy installation:

The top, middle, and bottom modules have small lateral pegs that will fit inside the screw holes of the optical drives.

Just bend the module a little bit and insert the drive. After that, stack them accordingly (top, middle, bottom) and put the screws in. I use cheap slimline adapters for the power and normal SATA cables to attach the drives to the motherboard. If you don’t have enough SATA ports on your motherboard just buy a cheap PCIe adapter card with SATA ports.

Ripping:

Lately, streaming platforms have quietly begun censoring older films to fit modern political correctness and other BS (no kidding there's a special Netflix edit of Back to the Future). Physical media protects your favourite movies from being altered or deleted. I use MakeMKV to rip the main movie + audio tracks and subtitles. I don't use handbrake to re-compress because HDDs are huge these days. For display I use jellyfin, it's really easy, free and does hardware encoding/decoding too. Installing it on the UGREEN NAS is pretty simple through their appstore. I put all the links as reference to the parts down below.

Screws needed:
4x wood screws D 2.9mm x 25mm (ISO 14585) for the modules: https://amzn.to/3J2EJFj
2x wood screws D 2.9mm x 9.5mm (ISO 14586) for the bezel: https://amzn.to/3H7KXDc

My NAS + Misc. parts for reference:
UGREEN NAS DXP4800 Plus: https://amzn.to/4fvoyfK
Crucial RAM 64GB Kit: https://amzn.to/4otkd0F
Toshiba 22TB Server HDD: https://amzn.to/3HjB19K

SATA 15pin to 6pin slimline adapter: https://amzn.to/4m9bizK
SATA 6x power splitter cable: https://amzn.to/4os45MH

Liteon DU-8AESH 9.5mm Slim DVD: https://amzn.to/45tog4n
Verbatim 43888 4K Blu-ray (contains 9.5mm HL-DT-ST BD-RE BU40N) needs firmware flashing to rip 4K discs but it’s pretty easy: https://amzn.to/4fvctHr

PCIe 3.0 card 4x SATA ports: https://amzn.to/4mcqMTR
PCIe 3.0 card 6x SATA ports: https://amzn.to/41wzP9H

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