Lian Li Lancool Metal Boned K10 Case Review

Installing Hard Disk Drives (Cont’d)

The next step is, of course, intalling each hard drive to an internal hard drive bay, but you have to pay close attention here. If you try to install the hard disk drives from the left side of the case – i.e., the side that you would normally use to install hard disk drives and other components – you will see that the drives won’t fit. They must be installed from the right side of the case (i.e., from the side behind the motherboard). For that you will need to remove the right panel, which is easy to do because it uses thumbscrews as we have shown and also you will have to remove this panel anyway to install the motherboard.

Figure 21: Hard disk drives must be installed from the right side of the case, not from the left.

Installing the hard disk drives on this case is easier than on regular cases. You need to insert the drive in the bay inclined, with its front part lower than its rear part, sliding it until it reaches the end of the bay. Then push the rear part of the drive down until it reaches the end of the bay, as shown on Figures 22 and 23. Make sure that the metal part of the bay will be located exactly in the middle of each rubber ring.

Figure 22: Installing a hard drive.

Figure 23: Hard drive correctly installed.

In order to avoid hard disk drives from getting out of place while you transport your computer, you need to attach a regular thick thread screw to each drive, as shown in Figure 24.Also, one very important thing: if you don’t screw your hard disk drives like shown in Figure 24 people will be able to open your case and steal your hard drives even if you use a pad lock. This happens because the right panel isn’t locked by the pad lock and anyone opening the right panel can easily remove the hard disk drives, unless they are screwed, as the screws can only be reached from the other side, which is protected by the lock.

Figure 24: Screwing a hard disk drive to the case.