| Article Index |
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| Enermax ECA5000 Uber Chakra Tower Case Review |
| Page 2 - Drive Bays and Installation |
| Page 3 - Cooling |
| Page 4 - The Chassis |
| Page 5 - Other Features |
| Page 6 - Conclusion |
| All Pages |
With a massive total of 13 drives bays available, it’s hard to imagine someone running out of room for their drives in this case. 5 of these bays are 5.25” bays for your optical drives, tape drives, removable hard drive bays etc, and there is a 6-bay 3.5” hard drive cage inside the case located right down behind the front intake fan to keep them nice and cool. There are also two externally accessible 3.5” drive bays either for floppy drives or even more hard drives if you really need the room.
Any and all drives being installed into the Uber Chakra are done so with no tools whatsoever. Simple screw less drive slides attach onto both 3.5” and 5.25” drives and they are then slid into place, it’s as simple as it can possibly get. Perhaps a little too simple as there is no provision for extra restraint for any of the drives as a precaution when the case is being shipped or just travelling in general. However having said that, the hard drives are installed sideways into the case, so it’d be hard for them to get into the rest of the case if they did become loose.
The main 3.5” hard drive cage is located down the bottom of the case, right behind the 12cm intake fan at the front of the case. Sadly the design of the drive cage in terms of airflow is quite poor, and would serve to do little more than block most of the airflow for the rest of the case, but enough will get through to keep the hard drives installed down there nice and cool.
More on cooling on the next page...
