This case has four external 5 ¼” bays, two internal 5 ¼” bays and four internal 3 ½” bays for hard disk drives inside a cage. The sample we got didn’t come with any 5 ¼”-to-3 ½” adaptor so you can’t install floppy disk drives on this case. Even worse, the two internal 5 ¼” bays are completely useless, as you can’t install hard disk drives on them as well without adaptors. Maybe the manufacturer forgot to include these adaptors in the sample they sent us?
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Figure 11: Disk drive bays, internal view.
As you can see no screwless mechanism is used to fasten drives to the bays, but on the other hand this case comes with lots of thumbscrews with both thin thread (metallic, for the optical drives) and thick thread (black, for the hard disk drives), so you won’t need to use a screwdriver to attach drives to the case. In fact you won’t need a screwdriver to open the case, to attach daughter boards, to attach the power supply (you can use the black thumbscrews) or to attach drives and you can also use thumbscrews to attach the motherboard to its tray! So unless you have more than one optical drive you won’t need a screwdriver to build your PC!
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Figure 12: Thumbscrews.
For installing optical drives you will need to remove the front panel first, what is done by pulling a handle located on the bottom of the case. The first bay has the abovementioned mask and you won’t need any tool to install the drive. But if you want to install drives in the other bays you will need to remove the covers located in front of each bay, which are screwed to the front panel.
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Figure 13: Handle for removing the front panel.
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Figure 14: Front panel removed from the case.
The hard disk drive bays are located inside a removable cage, which is attached to the case using thumbscrews. To remove this cage you also need to remove the front panel first. Even though the hard disk drive cage comes installed on the bottom of the case, you can move it to upper bays, if you’d like to. The frontal 120-mm fan is attached to the hard disk drive cage and it glows blue when it is turned on.
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Figure 15: Hard disk drive cage.
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Figure 16: Hard disk drive cage.
