Lian Li PC-X2000F Case Review

The Disk Drive Bays

The Lian Li PC-X2000F  comes with four 5.25” bays inside a removable cage. Devices can be installed facing the left side or the right side of the case. Two of the 5.25” bay covers come with an aluminum retractable bezel for you to install your optical drive behind them, this way the “face” of your optical drive won’t be appearing, improving your computer aesthetics. During our review one of these bezels broke, because cheap plastic pins are used to hold them in place. One of the 5.25” bays comes with one 5.25”-to-3.5” adapter, allowing you to install external 3.5” devices.

Figure 21: Top hard drive cage and 5.25” bays

This case comes with two hard drive cages. One is located at the top of the case and supporting four 3.5” hard drives (see Figure 21), and the other one is located at the bottom of the case, supporting three 3.5” hard drives (see Figure 22). All of them come with hot swap connectors, and the PC-X2000F comes with seven SATA cables, in case your motherboard didn’t come with enough cables. Unfortunately this case doesn’t come with bays for 2.5” devices.

Figure 22: Bottom hard drive cage

In order to install hard drives, you need to first install a handle to each hard drive (see Figure 23), using a special screw. Then you only need to slide the hard drive in the bay in order to install it.

Figure 23: Hard drive handle

Figure 24: Installing a hard drive