Here you can see them out of the case - each drive has rubber mounts for each of the four mount points needed to secure the individual drives. This once again will help isolate any vibrations from the rest of the case.


The HDD cages.

As you can see from this image from Lian Li the supplied hdd thumbscrews can be tightened by a screw driver but thumb tightening is more than sufficient in most cases!


Convenient and easy to use.

The possibility of a NAS role becomes even more likely when you have removed the cages and unveil the dual 120mm fans. These units should provide excellent cooling to all those drives and besides the filters and grills they also use rubber mounts.


Dual 120mm fans for excellent cooling.

Here's another image from Lian Li showing one of their LED fans with the filter, grill and rubber vibration damping mounts in place.


Fan Lian Li style!

Hiding behind the 120mm fans you can see the PCB for the SD card reader as well as the bundle of cabling needed for the various front panel switched and connectors.


SD reader PCB.

Above this zone is the 5.25" optical bay. A fairly standard design although I would say it is the first questionable design I've seen so far - In order to remove the caddy to install the DVD/Bluray drive there are four screws that need to be removed. The first are the two silver screws you can see in the image. The other two are on the other side of the case meaning all eight side panel screws have to be removed before you even get to those last two silver screws. Now that in itself is a little laborious but if, like many system builders, you have already installed the motherboard then you'll find that the motherboard is now connected directly to that very side panel you need to remove. It is VERY fiddly but it can be done without too much cursing!!


The dreaded optical bay.

Here's an overview of the case internals with the cages removed. There's certainly a decent space available and with that split cage design some flexibility is available for either maximum hdd quota or maximum GPU install!


Pretty spacious with cages out.