Nanoxia Deep Silence 1 Case Review

The Disk Drive Bays

The Nanoxia Deep Silence 1 case has three 5.25” external bays and eight 3.5”/2.5” internal bays in three cages. One of the 5.25” bays can be converted into an external 3.5” bay. Only 5.25” devices can be installed without the use of tools or screws. On the other hand, the 3.5”/2.5” bays have rubber rings to reduce the vibration and noise generated by 3.5” hard drives.

Figure 17: Disk drive bays

This case provides a very flexible configuration for the hard drive cages. The three hard drive cages are removable. The top and the middle one are easily removed by pressing a latch located at their rear side. If you want to remove the bottom cage, you will need to unscrew it from the case.

There are three main scenarios you may encounter that could require removing or moving the cages.

If you have only up to three hard drives or SSDs and want to improve the airflow inside the computer, you can move the top cage to the bottom panel and remove the other two cages, so more airflow will come from the front fans.

If you want to install a 240 mm radiator on the front panel, you will also need to remove the three cages and install the top cage on the bottom panel. However, if you have video cards up to 12.4” (315 mm) long, you can install the middle cage and the top cage together on the bottom panel, allowing you to install up to six storage devices.

You will also need to move the top cage to the bottom panel if you need to install video cards longer than 12.4” (315 mm). The other two cages can stay on their default location if you are installing only one long video card, but they must be removed if you are installing more than one video card.

Figure 18: Case with hard drive cages removed

Figure 19: One of the possible configurations

Figure 20: One of the 3.5”/2.5” bays