Raven RV02 - flawed drive bay

[ed^chigliak]

Is it just me or is it virtually impossible to fix the hard drives in the cage after the motherboard is mounted. The drives sit vertically with screw fixings through rubber grommets on the top and bottom of the drive cage. The cage is at the bottom of the case so you can't access the underside. When you demount the cage and slide it back you can't get it past the motherboard so..... to add a hard drive you have to remove the motherboard. EPIC FAIL by silverstone unless I am being much thicker than usual.

You can remove the fan and sort of access the underside of the cage however I don't have a screw driver that is max 3cm long and at the time no mirror to see what I am doing. Maybe you can tear the front off and break out a load of metal plates and then pull through the front but I've lost interest. My drives are just going to hang from the top with no bottom fixing.

[TAKTAK]

Any chance of a piccy?

Sounds interesting...

[ed^chigliak]

Interesting is the wrong word... annoying is more like it. Imagine sliding a drive cage back. Can't go up. Can't go down. It hit's anything and everything that sticks up on the motherboard. Maybe I'll do pics tomorrow.

[Pob255]

Yes pic's please.
That does sound like a pritty major design flaw.

I've found in all cases with front back faceing drive bays that something is garrantied to get in the way, normally it's things like graphics cards.
Why I much prefur drive bays that slot in from the side, ether the individual drives or whole cage.

[ed^chigliak]

[ed^chigliak]

Now the graphics card doesn't fit bacause the backplate screw down 'platform' is slightly too tall. I somehow need to jack the motherboard higher on the standoffs or I can just keep bending the backplates up.

I would not recommend this case at half the price.

[Pob255]

Umm what's a

backplate screw down 'platform'

[MadduckUK]

Umm what's a

where you screw your graphics card etc in. he is saying that the case is too tall for the cards / the cards are too small for the case.

[DWhitley]

Now the graphics card doesn't fit bacause the backplate screw down 'platform' is slightly too tall. I somehow need to jack the motherboard higher on the standoffs or I can just keep bending the backplates up.

I would not recommend this case at half the price.

At first I thought you were trying to fit a long Radeon HD 5970 but you're saying that the plate which takes the 8 expansion card fixing screws is too far from the surface of the motherboard and doesn't allow the cards to sit correctly in their sockets? That means that either the case or the card isn't conforming to the ATX standard? Weird.

I assume Silverstone have abandoned the RV02-E with its 5 side mounting HD bays. Big mistake IMO.

[sadbuttrue]

Basically, the cards backplate will rest 5mm (just measured it) above the motherboard mounting. You can force the screw in, but it tends to rotate the card out of the PCI slot.

[Areku]

I was reading a review on this backplate issue yesterday. Really can't remember for the life of me what site that was now though, not too helpful.

Does this case like the FT02, have it's case system speaker missing too?

[Pob255]

Case speakers are getting very rare now, you sometimes get a little plug in buzzer now not an actual speaker mounted within the case.
However this may even become rare as some motherboard now have the buzzer built in or output error codes via the audio port on the IO.

Oh and I've found the solution to the hard drive issue, you're actually supposed to take the cage out via the front not from within.

[DWhitley]

The Raven RV02E with Fortress-type HD bay now seems to be available in Taiwan at least:

http://www.armygroup.com.tw/shop/article.php?id=332

[Pob255]

It's using the new air penetrator fans too


That's how it sould of been in the start.