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Page 2 of 4 Design and Features: With the main side panel off we can finally have a look at the insides of the case. The main motherboard area is big enough to accommodate a full-size motherboard including E-ATX standard of 12” x 13” size. So server boards shouldn’t be a problem in this case, and it will definitely be able to take any standard motherboard on the market. Case Open  The construction of the Tagan El-Diablo is normal steel, so it’s not exactly a light-weight case by any means, but with a case of this size, even if it was made of aluminium, once you load it up inside with all your goodies, it’s still going to be damn heavy. So with the El-Diablo the decision to stick with standard steel construction helps to keep the price low. Inside the case all the edges are rounded off to avoid any possible cuts when working on the guts of your system, you really wouldn’t expect anything less. There are 5 x 5.25” drive bays inside the El-Diablo, and the drives are all installed with drive slides that just clip into the side of the drives, however they can also be properly secured to the drive with a couple of screws going through the slides to stop them coming loose when the case is transported. Just below the 5.25” bays is a single floppy drive bay for the three of you out there that still use a floppy drive, and for everyone else you can use this space for another hard drive. However no drive slides can be used for this spot, so standard screws will be needed. We move down to the bottom of the case where we find the main bay for the hard disk drives. This bay can take a total of 6 drives which are mounted in from the side of the case, and are installed with plastic drive slides. These plastic drive slides do not need to be screwed into the drive, but it would be a good idea to do so if you plan on moving the case around. Tagan have allowed a spot on the drive slides for them to be fixed to the drive with a screw, but if you have a look at the picture of the slide below, I don’t know any type of screw that would be able to fit in there without severe modifications (read: cutting and hacking) to the plastic slide itself. Someone wasn’t thinking too hard when they designed this bit. 3.5 Inch Hard Drive Bay  Hard Drive Slides  Hard Drive Slide Installed - Notice the screw hole  The drives are nicely positioned behind the huge 250mm front intake cooling fan, so they’ll be kept nice and cool without a worry. This front cooling fan, as well as the side panel 320mm fan can have their speed manually controlled by a dial on each side of the case, or turned off altogether with switches located on either side of the front fan. These are great ideas, but the wiring for them inside the case is a nightmare, there are 4 separate Molex connectors (without pass-through connectors) being used from the power supply just for these fans and the lights on the side of case, which is ridiculous. Speed Control for Cooling Fans  On/Off Switch for Cooling Fans 
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