CM Storm Trooper Case Review

The Front Panel (Cont’d)

At the top part of the front panel, the case comes with a 2.5” hot-swap docking bay for SSDs or hard drives. See Figure 7.

Figure 7: Hot-swap docking bay for 2.5” SSDs and hard drives

The case comes with two hard drive cages, and each one comes with a 120 mm fan installed (Xin Changfeng DF1202512SELN, 1,200 rpm and 17 dBA). These fans are connected to the fan controller that comes with the case and glow red when turned on, but you can turn off their LEDs through the fan controller.

These cages come installed perpendicular to the case, making the fans pull air from the left-side panel mesh and blow it through the right-side panel mesh. See Figure 8. You can, if you want, rotate these cages, so the fans will pull air from the front panel instead. See Figure 9.

Figure 8: Front panel (default configuration)

Figure 9: Front panel (hard drive cages rotated)