Fractal Design Define R6 review

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At the backside of the chassis, we notice the gaping hole in the motherboard tray. No, it's not done to save money and weight, this is actually a CPU back-plate cutout which allows you to remove and install a new CPU cooler much easier. Typically you'd need to take out the motherboard to install a new cooler, now you can access it from both sides without that unpleasant experience of removing a motherboard from the chassis. Very popular with many chassis manufacturers these days alright.


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There is plenty space for cable routing here, not dramatic heaps of it but in-between the motherboard tray and back side panel a good 2.5 cm, not bad and definitely something that has improved over last-gen products from FD. You can see the two SSD trays here, you basically screw the SSD on there and done. These can be position on the PSU cover on the front side as well.


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So yes, that's what that looks like. Easy peasy stuff really. 

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You can spot rubberized grommet holes, cable ties (Velcro), a fan HUB which we'll detail on the next page and yeah ... the white colored trays. 

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You secure the HDD onto the tray and that's it. There are also mounting holes for SSDs, so really the sky is the limit here. 


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You could mount six of these. Mounting the tray is a little funky as a plastic insert needs to line up in an almost impossible to see location at the other side.But hey, no biggy. The HDDs are hanging in rubber washers, so there's little to no vibration here as well.

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