NZXT Lexa S Case Review

The Disk Drive Bays

This case has four external 5.25” bays, one external 3.5” bay and seven internal 3.5” bays for hard disk drives (one shared with the 3.5” external bay). Even though we can see holes on the middle of the 5.25” bays for installing screwless retention mechanisms, this case doesn’t come with them. On the other hand, this case comes with several thumbscrews for fastening 5.25” devices, so you don’t need to use any tool to install them. The same goes for the external 3.5” device.

Figure 13: Bays.

As for the 3.5” bays, two of them are located between the 5.25” cage and the main hard disk drive cage and they don’t use any kind of screwless retention mechanism. One of them has a dual function: can be used by either a hard disk drive or an external 3.5” device like a floppy disk drive. The five 3.5” bays present on the main hard disk drive cage use a screwless mechanism based on rulers that need to be installed on the sides of each drive.

Figure 14: Screwless mechanism.

Figure 15: Hard disk drive installed to the case.

Lexa S comes with an adapter for installing up to two 2.5” devices (most likely SSDs) on a 3.5” bay.

Figure 16: 2.5” to 3.5” adapter. It holds up to two 2.5” devices.

In Figure 17, you can see all accessories that come with this case.

Figure 17: Accessories.