Cooler Master Centurion 5 II Case Review

The Disk Drive Bays

The Cooler Master Centurion 5 II has five 5.25” external bays and five internal 3.5” bays. The I/O connectors from the front panel use one of the 5.25” bays, leaving you with four usable bays. One interesting feature of this case is the possibility of moving the I/O connectors to a different bay.

Figure 15: Disk drive bays

All 5.25” bays come with tool-less installation mechanisms, and standard 3.5” hard drives also use tool-less installation mechanisms, based on rulers; you need to attach one ruler to each side of the hard drive and then slide the hard drive inside the bay you want to use.

The case comes with two adapters. One converts any 5.25” bay into an external 3.5” bay. (It doesn’t officially support 3.5” hard drives, although one can be installed using only two screws instead of four.) The other adapter converts any internal 3.5” bay into an internal 2.5” or 1.8” bay.

Figure 16: The 5.25”-to-3.5” adapter

Figure 17: The 3.5”-to-2.5” adapter