Antec LanBoy Air Case Review

The Disk Drive Bays

The Antec LanBoy Air comes with nine 5.25” bays that can be configured in several different ways. The case comes with three supports for 5.25” devices (shown on the top three bays in Figure 20), and you can install these supports on the bays of your liking (they come installed on the top three bays). So, this case actually has three 5.25” bays. The other six bays are used by internal 3.5” devices and by the two front fans, which take three bays each.

Figure 20: Disk drive bays

Each 5.25” bays has a set of four supports for a unique suspension mechanism called “AirMount,” which is basically an elastic cord with a hook attached to each end, and a support for the hard drive in the middle. For installing 3.5” hard drives you need to install two mechanisms, one at each side of the drive, see Figure 22.

Figure 21: Suspension mechanisms

Figure 22: Hard drive with the mechanisms installed