CM Storm Trooper Case Review
The Disk Drive Bays
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The CM Storm Trooper has nine 5.25” external bays, one external 2.5” bay with hot-swap connectors, and four internal 2.5” bays. At its default configuration, two hard drive cages occupy six 5.25” bays (three each), leaving three 5.25” bays available. Each hard drive cage supports four 3.5”/2.5” devices. You can also convert one of the external 5.25” bays into an external 3.5” bay using the brackets that come with the product. The case comes with black thumbscrews for you to install 5.25” devices, while the installation of 3.5” hard drives doesn’t require the use of screws or tools. For installing 2.5” devices, however, you will need to use regular screws.
Figure 21: Disk drive bays
Figure 22: Reverse view
As already explained, you can rotate the hard drive cages, so the fans will be facing the front panel.
Figure 23: Hard drive cages rotated
In Figure 24, you can see one of the hard drive cages outside the computer. Disk drives are installed using small drawers, shown in Figure 25.
Figure 24: Hard drive cage
Figure 25: Drawer
In Figure 26, you can see the 2.5” cage.
Figure 26: The 2.5” cage with four bays