Cougar Challenger Case Review

The Disk Drive Bays

The Cougar Challenger case has three 5.25” external bays, one external 3.5” bay, seven 3.5”/2.5” internal bays, and one 3.5”/2.5” external docking bay. Except for the external 3.5” bay and internal 2.5” bays located inside the internal 3.5” bays, all devices can be installed without the use of tools or screws.

Figure 15: Disk drive bays

The case has two hard drive cages. The upper one has three 3.5”/2.5” bays, and the bottom one has four 3.5”/2.5” bays. This case provides a very flexible configuration for its top hard drive cage. You can remove it if you want to improve airflow and/or install very long video cards. However, if you want to install video cards between 11.4” (290 mm) and 12.6” (320 mm), you have the option to convert the top hard drive cage from 3.5” to 2.5.” (The case comes with three 2.5” drawers to make this possible.)

Figure 16: Top hard drive cage converted into 2.5”

Figure 17: Case without the top hard drive cage

Each 3.5”/2.5” bay is a small drawer. See Figure 18.

Figure 18: One of the 3.5”/2.5” bays and one of the 2.5” bays