Raidmax Blackstorm Case Review

The Disk Drive Bays

The Raidmax Blackstorm has four 5.25” external bays, one 3.5” external bay, and five 3.5” internal bays (four inside the main hard drive cage and one outside), all using tool-less installation mechanisms. This case also has one additional 3.5” bay for floppy disk drives that is not opened on the outside, so we wonder what it is doing there. You can force the installation of a hard drive there, but you will need to use regular screws to attach the drive, since the installation mechanism that comes on this bay is for a floppy disk drive. Unfortunately, this case doesn’t come with 2.5” bays.

Figure 15: Disk drive bays

The hard drive cage can be rotated and even entirely removed from the case. Hard drives are installed in the cage using ruler-based mechanisms.

Figure 16: Hard drive cage removed from the case

The case comes with a small toolbox below the hard drive cage, which has the rulers for installing hard drives, screws, and a buzzer.

Figure 17: Toolbox