There are three HDD quick release units each of which can mount three HDDs. The units slide on to five possible mounting locations where they can be screwed down. Three are in the lower chamber:
While two can fit between the 5 1/4″ bays and the lower chamber:
Although there are three units they are not all the same. Only one is prewired to be fully hotswap capable. The other two units are not wired up and instead SATA and power must be wired in manually through the rear. While this is of course a cost saving measure, it’s not a big deal, because very few people these days who would be interested in this case need more than full hotswappable bays anyway. Here’s the prewired hotswappable unit:
The HDD caddy trays are cheap plastic that can easily snap into a standard 3.5″ drive. A 2.5″ SSD on the other hand requires the metal side pins to be removed and the drive to be screwed in from the underside:
This is not a high quality workstation style hotswap bay, it’s designed for occasional use and it does feel flimsy, but it’s also not horrible and for infrequent use it’s perfectly fine.
The dual PSUs would be mounted either side and there is no option to center mount the PSU:
Of course these days dual PSUs are rarer because there are plenty of high power PSU options. Those pushing more than 1600W are normally those who bench, and this is not a case made for benching.
If you do mount dual PSUs then you will be more limited in the radiators you can use. A long PSU like the AX1200 would only allow a 240 in front of it. In fact I’m sure more creative modders will mount the PSU in the main chamber in order to run two full slim 480s side by side in the bottom chamber.
Fat radiators like the Alphacool Monsta series that are 80+mm thick can still be fitted as long as only one set of 25mm thick fans are used:
As can be seen there is a small amount of clearance with the Monsta. I would however recommend using at most a 60mm thick radiator so that Push/Pull fans can be used. In addition if you are running side by side radiators then I would suggest something even thinner.
The side mounted radiators can be mounted with a two part quick release radiator mount:
This is not as quick release as it should be and is certainly no match for the CaseLabs radiator mount. In order to mount the radiator, I had to attach the bottom half of the mount, then mount the radiator, and then screw the top part into the case and the radiator. Again this is not a big deal, but certainly something that could have been simpler and easier albeit most likely requiring a cost in terms of space efficiency.
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Great review. I have been looking for a long term review for the 900D. I have heard problems with production quality, like bits snapping off. But you give no mention of that so I’m assuming these are isolated incidents.
Hey Terry – Yes I haven’t seen problems in the long run with anything failing. Most complaints I’ve seen were things being delivered with something broken. There’s definitely improvements that can be made and corners that were cut to save costs, but for the non-msrp price it’s a great deal!
Like the 900D. But – 480 rads can be obstructing to the upper bay as the rad will intrude on optical drive lengths / area. For this reason I swapped over to a 420 up top. Plenty of room all round and leaving many other options open, so I would disagree on the 480 recommendation up top.
Had to remove the lower intake fan as well to accommodate the 480 which is 60mm deep as the rear chamber just impinged on the fan mounts – using Alphacool nexus 480 x 60 unit with the 420 x 60 up top. Also a 140mm below as well. This aside, a joy to work in but still not the same as my lianLi 2120 workstation unit. may well look at the boutique brigade next time..
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