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Antec Skeleton Case Review
Author: Gabriel Torres
Type: Reviews Last Updated: October 24, 2008
Page: 5 of 7
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The Disk Drive Bays

This case has two 5 ¼” bays and two 3 ½” bays for hard disk drives. They use a quick release mechanism, where you simply screw a peg with your fingers to the drive and then slide the drive in the bay. The problem is that each unit uses only one peg and the drive remains very unstable, requiring you to add regular screws to the other side of the unit. Thus even though this case features this practical quick release mechanism, in reality it isn’t a screwless design.

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Figure 14: The two 5 ¼” bays, located on the front left side.

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Figure 15: The two 3 ½” bays, located on the front right side.

You can install a 92-mm fan that comes with the case in front of the hard disk drives in order to cool them down. Unfortunately you can’t control the speed of this fan and it uses a regular 4-pin power connector, meaning that you can’t monitor its speed.

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Figure 16: 92-mm fan to cool down the hard disk drives.

Now, what is the weirdest thing about this case is how it supports extra hard disk drives: they need to be installed on the exterior of the case. This is simply ridiculous. You have to screw you hard drive to a small frame and then this frame is simply hung on holes available on the case side panels. Not only the hard disk drives are completely exposed to any sort of physical damage (we can clearly see the wheels of a chair smashing one of the hard disk drives if this case is installed on the floor) but they can fall from the case during transportation.

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Figure 17: More hard drives can be literally hung on the case.

If you remove the side panels you won’t be able to install extra hard disk drives. This case allows you to install up to four hard drives like this, so you can have up to six hard disk drives with this case.

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