Once the screw is removed from the bottom, you can slide the top cover back and up to remove it.

     With the top cover removed you can see the controller board and the drive mounts.  The Antec blower is mounted directly to the drive cage and the silicon padding is designed to reduce vibrations from both.  The entire cage can be removed by removing the two screws located at the top and bottom of the case as seen here.

Installation:

     To test the MX-1 I chose a new Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250 GB hard drive.  Featuring Seagate's award winning Perpendicular Recording technology and SATA 3.0, this drive is the little brother of the 750 Gb monster we reviewed here.  With the fantastic prices in the hard drive market placing the cost of this drive at about $70, this represents a great drive to really maximize the use of an external enclosure.  The rest of the test build is based on an ABIT Fatal1ty AN9 32X motherboard and uses the NVIDIA 590 SLI MCP/SPP 190 chipset with an onboard NVIDIA MCP55 Serial ATA controller.  The latest BIOS and drivers were installed before testing.

     After removing the two mounting screws and disconnecting the drive light cable we can turn things over to access the drive mounts.

     The four screws are cushioned with silicon and should not be over tightened.  This setup is common in high end cases and has proven highly successful at isolating drive vibrations that cause most hard drive noise.

     Once you have the hard drive firmly in place the cage slides back into the enclosure.  Two screws and the drive light plug connection, then the cover goes back using the single screw from the bottom.  Easy!

     The finished product mounted in the vertical bracket.  You can see the power/activity light is small but still visible under the Antec logo.  As an added bonus the color scheme matches my desk surface nicely.