can u take the 6 3.5 in harddrive bays out/the cage itsself. at the bottom frount fan location.
472672
Yeah, each one is a little tray. To remove you just squeeze the two tabs on the tray and it pulls right out.
472673
All the bays? I assume you mean the little plastic trays that keep the drives in place. The trays sit in a steel cage and can be removed to form a clear open void. Hope this answers your question.
472674
The individual plastic trays/bays for the 3.5" hard drives slide out for easy removal, but the cage/rack these trays sit in is riveted to the main tower chassis.The trays can be adapted using another smaller plastic tray to house solid state drives (SSD). There is plenty of room between the hard drive cage/bays and the front of the tower chassis to house a large Corsair cooling device if required.
472675
If I understand your question correctly, the trays that in in the hard drive bays can be removed out of the bays, yes.
472676
The actual metal drive cage, not the removable plastic sleds, cannot be removed. It looks like it's riveted to the rest of the case.
668646
Yep. There is a mount at the bottom of the case that will take a 2.5 or 3.5 inch drive. You can also get adapters to put a 2.5 in any 3.5 slot. Specifically on this case, you may want to watch this quick unboxing and feature review video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qJutw4eyvJ4
668648
Yep. There is a mount at the bottom of the case that will take a 2.5 or 3.5 inch drive. You can also get adapters to put a 2.5 in any 3.5 slot.Specifically on this case, you may want to watch this quick unboxing and feature review video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v;=qJutw4eyvJ4
956155
Yes there are screws that allow you to remove the drive bays. The airflow on this case is great. I have fans in every possible location. I have 9 drives in this case and no problems with anything overheating and the cable management is great. I recently put a 256 GB SSD in the hidden compartment on the right hand side.
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I don't know, because right now I only have one 3.5" drive installed. But. The fan in front of this bay adapter blows outside air directly on the drives, I don't see how drives could be mounted in any cooler manner than this enclosure, since in the usual way drives are mounted in a tower, there is no direct air for them at all, they are cooled only by convection with the air inside the box.
337443
No, theres a video on OWC site that shows you how to do it...You gotta bend the SATA cable the other way basically...
1130299
No, that drive is a bit too tall for this case. The WD drives tend to be a little shorter.
1796450
Has anyone actually successfully converted one of the 5.25 bays to 3.5 for a hard drive? I have 9 hard drives and want to see if this would actually fit them all. Thanks
2180955
Doubtful I built a pc for somebody and threw a GTX 560TI in it (9 inches). There was maybe half an inch of space left plus it covered the SATA ports on the board. Any other qjestions feel free to ask.
1376742
Thank you for contacting us. The hard drive from the item you are inquiring about can be removed from the rear panel.
1765502
here is what you needVantec Dual 3.5-Inch SATA to USB 3.0/eSATA External HDD Enclosure with Fan (NST-620S3R-BK)
1810734
Not really. I had a 2.5 SSD that I wanted to boot from in this case, so I just used velcro to stick the 2.5 to the floor of the case and then put my 3TB 3.5 in the HDD enclosure.HTH
192710
It is quite simple when you get the hang of it. Attach the rails without screws to the drive and then slip them in the drive slots. To remove the drive, squeeze the ends of the rails toward the drive and pull the drive out. My case has room for 5 drives.
422776
No. This drive is only for desktop computers. Taking the drive out of the enclosure will not only void the warranty but render the drive useless.
658401
I haven't had the need to use hot swap drive cages, but I'm using using this case more as a htpc. I've got a full ATX mobo, two long graphics cards, and three hard drives. And there's a tone of space in the case to easily fit all of those components. While that might not answer your question, let me tell you that there's about an inch and a half of space between the edge of my mobo and the current drive cages. You might find that there's actually too much room in the case.
682539
There are three bays in front. The top one has the DVD. The bottom one has the Hard Drive. The middle one is open, but maybe the hard drive could go somewhere else. I don't know, I don't want to open up the case at the moment. But you have one without any modifications.
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Then maybe I should be more specific. If you take the case cover off the back side of the mother board you should have an access window on the MB mounting plate to the back of the motherboard where the cpu mounts which would make it easy to take off the mounting bracket without having to remove the motherboard. I do believe that bracket will be in the way of unlocking the CPU, I could be wrong, but I just mounted this fan system a few months ago. I understand not wanting to remove the MB. It's a pain.