One of the biggest problems when building a system is getting enough airflow inside the case so all components receive enough cooling air.
The more IDE and SCSI devices you install in your case the more difficult that gets, not only because more devices produce more heat, but also because the wide IDE and SCSI cable block the airflow.

One solution would be to buy rounded cables, but I did not want to waste my money.
Besides it is much more to make everything yourself.
I will show you how I modded all the cables in my case by means of one of the ATA-100 cables.

The ATA-100 and SCSI cables are made up out of 80 wires, a Floppy cable out of 40 wires.
I cut the ATA-100 and SCSI cables in strips of 8 wires and the Floppy in strips of 5 wires.

The strips were then bundeled to tightly packed bundels and secured with tie-wraps.
This procedure does shorten the cable a little bit, but as I always make my cables myself, that was no problem, besides the difference in length between a modded and an unmodded cable is on average 2 cm.

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