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A
Closer Look:::...
Inside,
thing look rather sparse, which in this case is a good thing
because the top priority in a case this size is room. Just
three screws allow the one-piece outer casing to be lifted
off making component fitting a breeze.
Along
the right hand side (when viewed from the front) is the
internal power interface card to which you must attach one
of the supplied ATX power lead. That looping length of black
and white cable could have been tied to keep it tidy but
I'm nit-picking. Having said that, if I managed to trap
and pinch it under the hard drive caddy by mistake and shorted
the power supply I'm sure I'd consider it more than just
nit-picking!
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Internal
Power Interface Card
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To remove the hard drive caddy, you must first remove the
two screws I showed you earlier on the rear, followed by
two more on the left (below)
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Caddy
Screws
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Then the final two over on the right by the power interface.
On top of the caddy you can probably make out the fixed
stand-offs to which the motherboard mounts.
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Caddy
Screws
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The
caddy then lifts out and you attach your hard drive in the
conventional way only slung beneath. If you're mounting
the drive with the power and data connections to the rear
of the case, you need to make sure these are plugged in
before you replace the caddy as your chanced of doing it
after slim unless you have triple-jointed fingers and eyes
in your knuckles.
Could
the caddy be hinged so it lifts up and the drive slid in
using quick-fit drive rails? Yup, I reckon it could. Would
it be easier? Yup, I reckon it would, but would it cost
more? And would it tend to vibrate? That's one for the design
team I'm afraid. Six screws is a bit of a shock to the system
though in these days of tool-less cases.
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Hard
Drive Installed
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