Specifications

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Remove the drive bay
from the chassis and
slide the two hard
drives in so that the
connectors face the
inside of the case.
Align the side-mount
holes with the holes in
the drive bay. Screw in
the hard drives, using
the screws supplied
with the case.
The optical drive installs directly into the case,
without rails. Simply slide the optical drive
into the case and fasten it into place with the
appropriate screws.
Attach the small power connector and the floppy disk drive’s data cable. Normally
you would attach the end with the twist to the drive, but if the cable is round,
follow the markings on the cable. The other end goes into the floppy disk drive
connector on the motherboard.
Like the optical drive, the floppy disk drive slides directly into
the case and is screwed into place.
Attach the power and IDE cables as well as
the proper CD-audio and S/PDIF digital audio
cables to the back of the optical drive.
Connect the IDE cable to the secondary IDE
connector. Don’t use the primary connector, or
the system will attempt to boot from the
optical drive.
Install the Hard Drives
Install the Optical Drives
Install the Floppy Disk Drive
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Locate the ICH5R
SATA connections.
Connect one SATA
cable to each connec-
tor. Not only is Serial
ATA faster than paral-
lel ATA, but the cables
are far smaller, improv-
ing airflow and service-
ability within the case.
Install the drive bay
into the case. In
addition to the two
superfast SATA hard
drives, we’ve also
installed a single
200GB Maxtor hard
drive for storing large
multimedia files.
Connect the power and
SATA drive cables to
the hard drive. Unlike
older ATA drives, SATA
drives are not daisy-
chained; each has its
own cable.