Zalman MS1000-HS2 Case Review

The Disk Drive Bays

As mentioned, this case has four external 5.25” bays, which use a completely screwless mechanism, shown in Figure 14. The bottom two bays come with two adapters. One of them allows you to install 3.5” devices and the other one allows you to install both 3.5” and 2.5” devices. Both support floppy disk drives and hard disk drives.

Figure 14: 5.25” bays.

Figure 15: Adaptors.

The 3.5” hard disk drive bays are definitely the highlight from MS1000-HS2. They are available in removable two cages that are accessed from the front panel of the case. Each cage has three drawers featuring hot swap connectors, so you can add and remove hard drives to this case without needing to install cables to the drive (you will need to install the cables to the connectors available on the rear part of the cages, of course). What is important here is that all six bays have hot swap connectors – usually cases with this feature only have one or two of them.

Figure 16: One of the cages viewed from the front panel.