In Win Dragon Slayer Case Review

The Disk Drive Bays

This case has three external 5.25” bays, one external 3.5” bay and one internal 2.5” bay (for laptop hard disk drives or SSD units). The way the 5.25” bays are configured is very interesting: one is located on the top part of the case and two are located on the bottom part of the case. These two come with a hard disk drive cage supporting two 3.5” hard disk drives. Therefore this case gives you the flexibility of removing the hard drive cage if you want to install a liquid cooling solution that uses two 5.25” bays. If you decide to use such system, you will have to either install your 3.5” hard disk drive on the external 3.5” bay (in this case you will need to use regular screws as the screwless mechanism from this bay isn’t compatible with hard drives) or a 2.5” hard disk drive or SSD unit on the 2.5” bay.

The 5.25” bays and the external 3.5” bay feature screwless retention mechanisms for holding drives. Hard disk drives are installed inside the hard drive cage using rulers, which need to be screwed on both sides of each hard drive. These rulers feature rubber rings to reduce the vibration produced by the drives and thus reducing noise.

Figure 15: Overall look.

Figure 16: The top bays (5 ¼,” 3.5” and 2.5”).

Figure 17: The bottom bays (two 5.25” or two 3.5”).

Figure 18: Removing the hard drive cage.

Figure 19: The hard drive cage.

Figure 20: Rulers for hard drive installation.