Hardware Installation – Part 2
The optical bays are very cool, to install a drive you simply push the drive into the bay! It really is that simple. When the drive is inserted to the correct depth the latch will grab it and hold it in place. To move, push the blue lever and pull the drive out. Very quick, very easy.
You do have to remove the front panel to remove the cover/filter for the drive bay, that’s easy though as you simply pull it off.
Using the HDD dock is simplicity itself, just stuff a drive in it. I attached the dock’s SATA cable to one of my motherboard’s SATA6 ports to test the dock’s speed. Unsurprisingly given it’s simple nature it runs quite happily with a SATA6 drive and there is no noticeable performance hit.
Below are some pictures of my 24/7 hardware installed in the case.
Despite using a truly huge Thermaltake Toughpower XT 1275w 80+ Platinum power supply and a far from small Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme CPU cooler everything fits easily and leaves plenty of room for working on the computer. Cable management was a snap as well.
When I first started the computer up the top fan made a bit of noise, it was just barely possible to hear it with the case side on and the case under my desk. After running overnight that noise has disappeared and all the fans are extremely quiet, I cannot hear any of them without getting so close that my ear is in danger of getting eaten by the fan!
The side panel of the case catches the LED light from the top fan and spreads it around nicely, the effect is fantastic!
The front fan looks great as well:
The fans put off a fair amount of light, as you can see the top fan doing in the photo below:
It’s not terribly dark under my desk, but the Overseer RX-I lights it up even more! It’s a really nice BLUE shade of blue too, unlike some LEDs.
Lastly here is the front IO panel in the dark with all the LEDs lit. The HDD LED is the red one on the left, power is the blue on the right. The middle LED fades on and off in a “breathing” effect, as mentioned on the box.
