On Figure 13 you can see an overall look inside the reviewed case, while on Figure 13 you can see the rear side of the case viewed from inside and on Figure 14 you can see the hard disk drive cage which has five bays. On this picture you can also see the two frontal 120-mm fans used to cool down the hard disk drives.
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Figure 13: Inside Lancool Metal Boned K10.
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Figure 14: Rear 120-mm fan and slots.
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Figure 15: Hard disk drive cage with five bays.
The hard disk drive cage comes in a position where the drives are installed perpendicular to the case. You can, if you want, change the position of this cage to make the hard disk drives to be installed on the standard position, i.e. on this case you can rotate the cage 90º. Making this modification, however, will give you a little bit of work, as you will need to remove the frontal panel in order to be able to unscrew the two L-shaped parts that hold the cage to the front of the case (see one of these parts on the upper right side on Figure 15). Besides these two parts you will need to remove the four screws that hold the cage to the bottom part of the case. Removing the front panel is also required if you want to have access to the two washable air filters.
Speaking of which, they came out of place on our sample due to transportation. We could see some other readers complaining about the same thing on the Internet, so there is a very high chance of you having to remove the front panel to put these filters back in place even if you don’t want to change the configuration of the hard disk drive cage.
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Figure 16: Case without its front panel.
On Figure 17 you can see the hard disk drive cage removed from the case and on Figure 18 we rotated it and installed it back to the case. Under this configuration the two L-shaped parts aren’t used and should be removed from the cage. Pay close attention when screwing the cage back to the case because the parts that look like a hook must be facing the frontal fans. If you screw the cage with these parts facing the center of the case you simply won’t be able to install hard disk drives on the bays! We will explain you why on the next page.
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Figure 17: Hard disk drive cage rotated ninety degrees.
