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Anyone aware of an ATX Case without any drive bays

Hello you amazing LTT forum members!

Okay so I'm looking for a case  for my next build, basically I've decided I'm abandoning all 2.5", 3.5" and 5.5" Drives and going with a pure PCIe SSD
which means I'd like to find a case that simply has no drive bays, making the case more compact and maybe opening up some room for a perfect front radiator mount
I Love the NZXT H440 (But not suitable) and am very aware of the S340 but I wanted to know any alternatives that are compact and lack drive bays!

Thanks in advanced!

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Well its not a particular case but a lot of cases features removable drive trays so you can taken em all out. 

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There is no case that has no drive bays. Most cases have removable drive bays though, so you could just take them out yourself...

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Pretty much any case. It just requires a few screws to be taken out. 

 

Or rivets to be drilled out as some like the 230t have the cages riveted in...

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Or rivets to be drilled out as some like the 230t have the cages riveted in...

That can be taken care of with a screw driver, and about a few hours of work on one rivet. But it still works. 

 

 

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How bout the corsair air 540? Pretty good rad support and the drive bays are hidden in the back, which you of course could remove, though it may take some modding if they are riveted in.

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What about any micro ATX or mini ITX case?   They have drive bays, but overall they're smaller.  That might help get closer to what you want.  Maybe. 

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Well its not a particular case but a lot of cases features removable drive trays so you can taken em all out. 

 

 

There is no case that has no drive bays. Most cases have removable drive bays though, so you could just take them out yourself...

This is true but then there's still the struts and rack for where the drives would've been, I was thinking of a case that has completely removed that so its more compact

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How bout the corsair air 540? Pretty good rad support and the drive bays are hidden in the back, which you of course could remove, though it may take some modding if they are riveted in.

Ahh thank you, this looks pretty good

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custom case manufacturers like CaseLabs, Mountain Mods and others do

not include drive bays only as an option if needed.

as to mass-manufacturing chassis', they all have ODD, HDD, SDD mounts.

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Phanteks Enthoo Pro and few minutes with screwdriver, but that might be too big of a case depending on what other hardware you want to put in it.

 

Althou you could fit two triple rad in it.

 

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Could get the Air 540.

 

It has some 2.5" drives in the side compartment, but they're totally out of view and removable, plus they don't get in the way of anything (ie, are not in a place to obstruct a radiator). It also has two drive bays on the floor in the front, but those are completely removable too, and doing so allows (I believe) for the addition of extra floor fans.

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He wants to save space so taking out bays doesnt help it just leaves empty space... I am the same pretty much I want a case that has very minimal drive bay areas as I only use two ssds.

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