Cougar Evolution Case Review

The Disk Drive Bays

The Cougar Evolution has six 5.25” external bays and a hard drive cage that has four 3.5”/2.5” bays. All bays use tool-less installation mechanisms, except when you have 2.5” devices.

Figure 17: Disk drive bays

You can remove the hard drive cage from the case. See Figure 18.

Figure 18: Hard drive cage

Each 3.5”/2.5” bay is actually a small drawer, with rubber rings around its pegs to absorb vibrations and, thus, reduce noise.

Figure 19: Drawer