The only challenge I had was finding a spot for an SSD, and that was only because I had 2 spinning hard drives already installed

The are clearly on inside the case, they just dont shine through to indicate power or hard drive activity.

One of the fans pulls air away from my DVR hard drive, cablecard tuner and processor

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it'll flash red with the hard drive activity.

There are few loops for cable management, The 5.25 drive cash is termendously bulky, the 3.5 hard drive space could definitely be improved, and despite someone mentioning a native 2.5" drive spot--heck if I can find it

how the hard drives fix into the center component rack is unusual in my experience but works fine

the power supply such that the cables go underneath the hard drive bay (this chassis supports both power supply orientations) allows the cables to not have to bend at a sharp angle and keeps the chassis from bending

A lot of users had trouble with external hard drive in USB docking stations, dropping the drives when they were in idle mode

This bad-boy can hold up to seven (7) 3.5-inch hard drives and a full-size ATX motherboard if the builder so desires.

For the removable hard drives, the case included integrated power and data

There are three different options for mounting a solid state drive, two directly to the case, one under the DVD or BluRay drive, though that seems to be the intended destination for a spinner

PSU:-- A 60GB SSD for the operating system-- 2 x 2TB traditional hard drives for movie and music storage-- 16GB RAM (2 x 8GB)-- GTX

Swappable hard drive SATA cables are way too long and will need to be bunched up.

Upgrading can be a bit tedious if you have to remove the creative drive cage, but hey, if you're upgrading, you probably don't mind taking the time to work inside your computer (like me)

It comes with 3 fans and enough room for 7 3.5" drives as well as 2 slots for DVD/Bluray drives.

It easily fits a full-size ATX motherboard, a plethora of hard drives, disk drives, plenty of room for the power supply, and the fans that come with the case are well above average for stock case fans

:There is exactly 150 mm between the back of the chassis and the hard drive bay

If you buy this case get ready for some fun, inside they have a lift out piece for the front (it holds the hard drives and 5:25 drives) cut the lower corner out of the inside 5:25 drive area

Based on the size of my cabinet, I went with the GD05.The case is very roomy but some of the mounting decisions on the motherboard and hard drives made me scratch my head in disbelief

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I was able to mount an SSD drive, two standard hard drives and a Blu-ray drive with a 2Tb portable drive plugged into a USB3 port running Windows 7

Nice case, but I definitely had to take a dremel to the hard drive cage and plastic doors

Many htpc cases completely neglect hard drive ventilation, just as many many htpc cases don't allow for more than one 3.5" hard drive, but this case excels in both areas

I got this because it:- Has enough hard drive bays for my needs; I have 5 HDD's and 1 SSD on

What it does not mention, is that you have to buy an optional hard drive caddy that mounts under the 5.25 Optical drive

I have a Z97 motherboard, core i7 4770, four 7200 RPM hard drives, a SDD, Blu Ray burner, and RAID controller in here and the cooling performance / air flow is sufficient to keep the RAID card fan-free and the whole system under

(The Optical drive and two hard drives are installed on the other side.

The quick disconnect hard drive slots are AMAZING.

Holds a number of hard drives, has adequate cooling (even when packed full) and fits almost anything I can throw at it

Quiet, plenty of room for expansion, LOVE the hard drive chassis.

Another inch in between the motherboard and front hard drive area would have helped a lot

Which the hard drive layout could be more videocard friendly (maybe placing the bays on the left or right side, I'll still be able to manage to add a couple of more drives using 5.25 to 3.5 inch adapters, and a drive can be mounted on the side

It also has a spot to mount a solid state hard drive, which should be a given for any modern day pc builds.

With normal cabling, the drive was pushing the heat sink and putting uneven stress on the CPU.

You have to mount an SSD first then the 3.5' hard drive over it onto this support beam over the power supply on the right hand side.

As others have said don't read the specs and think you're going to stuff a big bank of hard drives in here.

The only drawback is that it only holds two hard drives and one optical drive.

I found the mounting for hard drives odd and the fact the when putting in the mother board

I've got two mechanical hard drives and an SSD inside it for storage

The power led light serves as hard drive activity light as well

Hard drive cage installation was a nightmare

Room for more hard drives than you could need

The specs state that it can house 4 x 3.5 drives and a 2.5 hard drive or a SSD drive

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I can hold 2 hard drives, an optical drive and a full size ATX mother board

a loud drive there will be more audible

The single fan included in the case is located right in this area, so the drives are very well-cooled

The case could have easily been made to store one to two additional hard drives, with holes for a 2.5" SSD on the bottom of the case.

It looks like you can install additional hard drives with adapters sold on the manf

It looks like you can install additional hard drives with adapters sold on the manf

4 stars for a fairly sketchy spot to mount a solid state drive.

a loud drive there will be more audible

Hard drive vibrations are effectively damped, but still audible when accessed (not at ALL when idle but spinning)

and there's even enough room for two hard drives

I'm dual booting Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 14.04 from SSDs and have a 2 TB 3.5" hard drive for storage.

There are several different size/threaded screws for the DVD drive support and hard drive bays.

Also the Hard Drive cables obstruct the airflow

2 of the 3.5" drives go in the hot swap bays, 1 of the 3.5" drives goes on the underside of the optical drive bracket, and 1 of the 3.5" drives plus the 2.5" drive go on the hard drive bracket (which is attached to the hot swap bays).

The hard drive cage has handles that make removal easy for setup and there is some rubber padding in the lid so after sliding it on

It looks good in the media center and it's nice and compact and it still can take up to 5 hard drives out of the box (more with adapters).First, know that only PSUs with a depth of 150 MM or under will work in this case and even some 150 MM PSUs will have to be mounted upside down to fit (which means hot air blowing into your case).

I required a power extension cable inside the case in order to reach the DVD drive and the three hard drives

If the cables on the power supply are seated low enough, there is some room for them to go beneath the hard drive bay

Cons:If you have a large power supply, you really can't use the smaller drive

I attached a photo, which shows how the DVD drive / hard drive bracket is resting right on top of the CPU ( Can't image how a CPU fan would ever fit ).Also to support SSI-EEB (if you have one that would work kudos) you'll have to have remove one of the larger fans, and replace with 6x smaller fans

Both the Antec and nMedia cases I've worked with in the past have issues with video card length, hard drive access, cable routing, etc

It also has a spot to mount a solid state hard drive, which should be a given for any modern day pc builds.

There's space for lots of hard drives and room for air flow

This has only 1 hard drive bay

To overcome the mounting issue for the hard drives I bought a Silverstone 3.5 to 2x2.5 in drive bay converter and it works like a charm

I did not have to modify the hard drive cage at all either.

There is plenty of room inside for a full size mobo, multiple video cards, hard drives, 4 120mm case fans and 2 80mm exhaust fans

It has plenty of space for something like 12 hard drives (if you use the available 5.25 bays) and can easily be adapted to your liking

There is a spot for a second hard drive underneath the optical drive up against the front wall of the unit.

Works very well for those still rocking 3.5 inch non-SSD hard drives.

I got this because it:- Has enough hard drive bays for my needs; I have 5 HDD's and 1 SSD on

Even with a modern drive it could be a problem

I was able to mount an SSD drive, two standard hard drives and a Blu-ray drive with a 2Tb portable drive plugged into a USB3 port running Windows 7

The other drive caddy can hold two mechanical hard drives and also has room for an SSD

Yes, this will take up a space or two for your hard drive, but even if you're building a several terabyte gaming rig, you will have plenty of room in all of the other spaces

One more minor problem is that there isn't an LED for hard drive activity

Routing data and power cables for the hard drives was the hardest part of the build

But then realized you can only put one in under the horizontal cd drive bays, because the other 2 if in they wouldn't allow the hard drive and cd drive bracket to mount in the case

Even 140 mm power supplies (like the SilverStone Strider Plus ST50F-P that I used and recommend) must be mounted upside-down (fan up) such that the power supply cables go beneath the hard drive bay

I have 7 hard drives installed (still have room for 2 more

The vertical locking system used for hard drives may not be new, but it was new to me.

I now have a separate hard drive enclosure as punishment for rushing and not reading the instructions

That concept should be expanded to the entire hard drive bay assembly

If you use a 150 mm power supply, there is no room at all for cables to go between the hard drive bay and the power supply

I have an AMD 7950 inside of this, one mechanical hard drive and one SSD

Mounting of 2 hard drives is difficult and space is limited.

That being said, I packed this thing with 2 full hard drives, a Pentium G2020, Asrock motherboard, 550Ti, 4GB's of ram.

Second, know that out of the box you can fit 4x 3.5" plus 1x 2.5" hard drives in this case however the instructions are not really clear on where all those hard drives go.

This is the half point loss, a lack of mounting choices for the standard hard drive

You MUST mount the power cords away from the top of the case because otherwise you will not be able to reinstall the hard drive cages

The drive cage is well designed, but if the case is packed, removing the whole cage and rerouting cables can be pretty tedious when you have to replace failing drives

I built an HTPC with a solid state drive for OS/programs, and a RAID 5 for multimedia (movies, music, pictures, etc..)

Specs that I found important:-Tons of room inside for a mATX case-Can hold 3 total hard drives - 2x 3.5" and 1x 2.5" or 2x

The removable hard drive and optical drive cage is very handy, with vibration dampening built into the hard drive portion of the cage.

The red back-glow with the blue hard drive indicator blinking was particularly cool-looking but a bit too busy for my tastes.

the drive and the drive bay work just fine.- very difficult to install in general

The fans in the bottom are a nice touch to cool the hard drives and add cooling without having holes in the sides of the case

Have 2 hard drives in it and 3 others attached.

The mounts for a SSD and a larger 3.5" hard drive is nearly genius

I use an Asus P8P67 Deluxe motherboard, Intel i7 2600K CPU, 16GB GSkills DDR3 RAM 2133mhz, 2 x 4TB Hard drives, 1 x 2TB Hard drive, 2 x Corsair Force Series GT CSSD-F120GBGT-BK 2.5" 120GB SATA III in Raid0

The limited hard drive and fan spacing on the walls is a drawback

Case comes with two fans on the bottom, for cooling your hard drives.

Swapping drives out is a pain, as you need to remove the optical drive tray in order to get at either drive

This is probably the best case on the market for those who need a case with a lot of hard drives and have a very shallow entertainment setup.

I looks nice next to the other AV equipment but am not happy with the frustration of mounting the hard drives in.

WD does it best with the RE4 hard drive

I intend on running this as a NAS as well, with tons of hard drives inside

very nice case only draw back only room for one hard drive

Holds two 3.5" hard drives and one 5.25" optical drive (or whatever you want to put in the bay)

I have 5 hard drives and 1 SSD boot drive in this case, 2 in the hot swappable bays, 1 under the bay frame, 1 in the 5.25 bay adapter and another one above the PSU with the SSD under the 3.5 in the 5.25 bay

I don't even want to imagine how the nonexistent cable management would be with a non modular PSU or with a box filled with hard drives

Has enough room for my two 3 TB hard drives and my SSD as well as DVD player and all my other goodies

The second one I decided to build a compact gaming PC with a full ATX mothebroard, high end graphics card, liquid cooler, and two hard drives

Overall the case is great and well made, I just wish they would have supported more hard drive enclosures.

There is approximately 4 metal pieces that you have to unscrew from the frame, the Hard Drive bracket -- which is two sections -- and the optical drive -- which is two sections

Could have had more places to mount hard drives, but it meets my needs.

The location of the mount for two of the drives hangs very low over the ram/cpu fan.

Once we take the top panel off, you get a look at the DVD tray which you could use with an adapter to hold an additional mechanical hard drive instead of a DVD drive

I run a media server and torrent client on that box, among other things, if I left the hard drive indicator plugged in, it would blink nonstop.

Overall, the ventilation is excellent and I like the way that the intake fan is positioned right in front of the hard drives.

The fans in the bottom are a nice touch to cool the hard drives and add cooling without having holes in the sides of the case

Over the last two years I have packed it full of hard drives and a full size

Looks great in my living room, has room for lots of hard drives (I have an 11 TB raid 5 setup), and gives you lots of room inside for a huge CPU heat sink/fan setup

(this is a big issue with many HTPC cases)Some things you do need to watch for are Video card height and length, the case only has 140mm of height above the motherboard, so be sure you aren't using an extra tall video card, also if you plan to fill up your hard drive case with drives pay attention to the length, clearance gets tight with hard drives mounted in the bays at about 9 inches... although with 8 places to mount 3.5 inch drives and 2 2.5 bays along with the 2 5.25 bays you have tons of ways to avoid interference with your video card

Inside the case the screws for the optical and hard drive mounts are difficult to turn (don't strip them)

The next full tower PC I build will definitely incorporate this, as I have a ton of hard drives for all of my media.

Second, if you have a longer video card you'll have to sacrifice 2 hard drive slots so your video card will fit

This is a great case for a HTCP, with multiple hard drive storage

That being said, when using a full ATX motherboard, don't expect to be able to use a full length video card and use all the hard drive slots (I used and old dual slot EVGA 8800GTS 512 but could have gotten a smaller card if I wanted to use all the hard drive slots.