Lian-Li O11 Dynamic XL

hollowearth · 13 May 2025 at 07:57

I am struggling to find the hard drives on my Lian-Li O11 Dynamic XL.

The removable bays at the back are empty.

In the case I can identify the RAM, the graphics card etc but can't see the hard drives anywhere.

Can anyone please help me?
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hollowearth · 13 May 2025 at 09:34

I've been advised to look behind the graphics card but they don't look like they are there.

Not under the plastic Asus hood. The heat sink won't lift out.

Really confused as to where these are!

Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid
State Drive

xaldub · 13 May 2025 at 09:36

Are you sure the removable bays above the power supply unit ( 1st pic ) are empty ? I can see cables feeding into the bay immediately above the PSU. As the hard drive is likely a SSD it will be small and only take up a fraction of the bay enclosure.

hornetstinger · 13 May 2025 at 09:37

They're under the large bit of metal that says "M2 heatsink" if you're talking about 2.5" or 3.5" just follow the SATA cables

hollowearth · 13 May 2025 at 09:40

Thank you very much. I will use a little more force to lift off the heatsink.

hollowearth · 13 May 2025 at 09:44

Thank you so much. They are there.

Mcnumpty2323 · 13 May 2025 at 12:07

The removable/hot swap bays
Those take up to 4 x 2.5 sata ssds
That's what i put in mine
Possibly 3.5 hdds too
They don't take m2 drives

VRDoctor · 28 May 2025 at 12:12

xaldub said:
Are you sure the removable bays above the power supply unit ( 1st pic ) are empty ? I can see cables feeding into the bay immediately above the PSU. As the hard drive is likely a SSD it will be small and only take up a fraction of the bay enclosure.

The cables are always in place on this case as the drives slide into a back plane in the cage, so even if no drives installed, there will always bee some cables.