Corsair Carbide 300R Case Review

The Disk Drive Bays

The Corsair Carbide 300R has three external 5.25” bays and four internal 3.5”/2.5” bays, featuring tool-less installation mechanisms, except for 2.5” devices that must be installed using regular screws.

Figure 15: Disk drive bays

As you can see in Figure 15, the front fan blows air directly on the motherboard compartment, as there is no disk drive cage in front of it. If you want to cool down your storage devices instead, you will need to either move the front fan down or install a second fan on the front panel. The lack of a second disk drive cage allows this case to support very long video cards, up to 17.7” (450 mm).

Each 3.5”/2.5” bay is actually a small drawer. See Figure 16. The pegs that hold 3.5” hard drives in place have rubber rings to absorb vibration and, thus, reduce noise.

Figure 16: One of the 3.5”/2.5” bays