Lian Li Tyr PC-X500 Case Review

The Disk Drive Bays

This case has two external 5 ¼” bays, one external 3 ½” bay and four internal 3 ½” bays for hard disk drives inside two cages. If you won’t be using a floppy disk drive you can use the external 3 ½” bay as an internal bay for a fifth hard disk drive.

As you know this case uses a different design where the external bays are located sideways, what allowed this case to be shorter than traditional tower cases. You can chose which side of the case you want the front of the external drives to be located, as the case provides openings on both sides. For installing external drives you need to unscrew and remove the covers located on the side you want their front sides to be located.

The hard disk drive cages are fastened to the case thru thumbscrews. They need to be removed from the case for the installation of hard disk drives. The case does not provide any kind of screwless mechanism for the installation of the optical or hard disk drives. Hard drives, however, are installed using thumbscrews that come with the case. This case also uses rubber rings in order to absorb the natural vibration of the hard disk drives and prevent the noise produced by this vibration from propagating to the chassis.

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Figure 14: Hard disk drive cages.

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Figure 15: Thumbscrews for the hard disk drives.

On Figure 16 you can see all accessories that come with the reviewed case. As you can see, it comes with two Serial ATA cables, a feature not common to be seen on cases.

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Figure 16: Case accessories.

Lian Li Tyr PC-X500 Case Review
By Gabriel Torres on July 11, 2008	Page 4 of 6
The Disk Drive Bays This case has two external 5 ¼” bays, one external 3 ½” bay and four internal 3 ½” bays for hard disk drives inside two cages. If you won’t be using a floppy disk drive you can use the external 3 ½” bay as an internal bay for a fifth hard disk drive. As you know this case uses a different design where the external bays are located sideways, what allowed this case to be shorter than traditional tower cases. You can chose which side of the case you want the front of the external drives to be located, as the case provides openings on both sides. For installing external drives you need to unscrew and remove the covers located on the side you want their front sides to be located. The hard disk drive cages are fastened to the case thru thumbscrews. They need to be removed from the case for the installation of hard disk drives. The case does not provide any kind of screwless mechanism for the installation of the optical or hard disk drives. Hard drives, however, are installed using thumbscrews that come with the case. This case also uses rubber rings in order to absorb the natural vibration of the hard disk drives and prevent the noise produced by this vibration from propagating to the chassis. click to enlarge Figure 14: Hard disk drive cages. click to enlarge Figure 15: Thumbscrews for the hard disk drives. On Figure 16 you can see all accessories that come with the reviewed case. As you can see, it comes with two Serial ATA cables, a feature not common to be seen on cases. click to enlarge Figure 16: Case accessories.
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