Discovered something about my HTPC case.
The far right drive bays have screw holes that line up with a 2.5" drive.
Might make this shit easier.
Another idea I have is to make use of the spare room on the motherboard tray for a 2.5" drive cage.
as ghetto as this sounds, i dont bother with putting SSDs in drive cages. I hot glue em whereever i want em in the chassis.