Inside the Lian Li PC-V355-B
Looking in from the left side of the chassis, you can see there is quite a bit of room looking back at you. The wiring is all tidy in the front and the hardware is strapped to the hard drive rack to keep the natural and anodized aluminum scratch free.
Removing five thumbscrews for the motherboard tray and four for the PSU bracket, they both come off and get out of the way. Preparations for the build are much easier with a removable tray and installing the PSU from the back is the only way to go in this case.
The first glance into the right side of the chassis shows me the fan at the left just above a fan switch that has three speed settings. You can also tell that the hard drive rack is shifted to this side of the interior to allow for video card clearance behind it.
Looking at the wiring in the front of the chassis, there is a power, HDD activity and power LED wire along with the Native USB 3.0 connector, a couple of Molex connections from the fan adapters on the 120mm fans and a Molex power connection for the fan hub behind the switch.
For the optical bays, the floor is a solid sheet of aluminium and the sides are cut to utilize Lian Li's famous rubber washer system to support them on the sides. To lock a device in one side or the other, there is an included thumbscrew for that purpose.
You have the option to install the optical drive in this side as well, but I wanted to point out the HDD rack. In it you can hold three 3.5" drives and under it one 2.5" drive. These also used the rubber washers and screws for mounting and there is a locking rail on the right side for the 3.5" drives.
This is the back of the three speed fan switch and you have the option to supply 12V to the PCB and with the switch, step down the voltage of up to three 3-pin fans. If you remove the adapters on the front fans, these do have 3-pin power connections and is what this is for.
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Inside the BitFenix Prodigy
On the inside of the right door panel you will find the plastic rack that will hold an additional two 2.5"� drives. The wiring is attached to the door panel and contains power, power LED, reset and HDD activity F-panel leads, a native USB 3.0 connection with a built in USB 2.0 tail and an HD Audio connector.
Our first look inside the Prodigy shows that this chassis is very well appointed with the FlexCage and optical drive bays on the right. You can tell right away that you are going to need a smaller PSU to sit under the motherboard tray on the left.
The single 5.25"� bay will of course hold any optical drive or bay device you want to put in here, but it is also removable with six screws keeping it in place currently.
The FlexCage is a two part system that has three drive bays in an easily removable sled in the middle. Under it are two more drive bays that take a little more work to get out, but are also removable. The plastic trays allow for both 3.5"� and 2.5"� drive installations.
To remove the top three drives you just press on a clip at the top and the three drive cage slides right out of the way leaving the two drive bays in a cage that is screwed down.
Remember those six screws on the underside of the chassis? If you remove them, you can also pull the bottom two drives and the frame out of the chassis for even more space for things like water cooling.
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