The Disk Drive Bays
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The Fractal Design Define XL has four external 5.25” bays, one external 3.5” bay converted from one of the 5.25” bays, and ten 3.5”/2.5” bays in three cages, one with four bays in the motherboard compartment and two with three bays each in the power supply compartment. The case doesn’t have tool-less mechanisms for installing drives, but 5.25” devices are installed using thumbscrews.
Figure 20: Disk drive bays
As mentioned before, the upper hard disk drive bay can be removed for allowing the installation of longer video cards.
Figure 21: Upper hard drive cage removed
Figure 22: The top hard drive cage
Each 3.5”/2.5” bay is actually a small drawer, featuring rubber rings to reduce hard drive vibration and, thus, noise.
Figure 23: One of the 3.5”/2.5” bays
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