🔁 Lian Li LAN2-3X Hot-swap Back Plate for LANCOOL II/LANCOOL 2 / LANCOOL Two - LAN2-3X Review

This is the worst Lian Li product I have ever had. As others have said, the product suffers from alignment issues. Be sure to remove the existing metal plate from your case (not mentioned anywhere) and even then the holes won't line up or the indentations won't match. Drives were not recognized or powered after multiple installs in one or more bays. Try. I ended up installing the dips first, then reinstalled the panel by pushing the connectors down from the back before screwing them in. Really…

Installed. When replacing the drive brackets, be sure to apply good pressure. It took a few times, but eventually all three drives turned on the activity light. However, the SATA connector on the device was either not properly connected or defective. I changed the SATA cable to check, still nothing. I put everything back and used the SATA cables that came with the device and everything worked fine again. In the time it takes to wiggle the drive mounts perfectly for this to work, I was able to…

In short: Do I recommend it? Yes. This is a functional addition at a reasonable price. Lang: I got this for my Lancool 2 Mesh to help with the wiring. For that it works fine. It also offers power and usage LEDs for the attached drive, which is a nice touch. The instructions weren't the best for double sided tape, but with a little logical guesswork it's very easy. Why is a star missing? Getting the drive to sit properly in the center was something like Pia. I had to pull the crap out of the…

This chassis update is for Lancool 2 chassis only, so I'm wondering if the installation issue has been noticed by some people in other reviews. I installed mine in about 10 minutes and everything worked and fit perfectly, I used all the correct screws. The instructions are very vague, but I've been digging into PCs and working with cars professionally for over two decades, so I'm pretty good at taking things apart and putting them back together. Lian Li has a youtube video on installation, I…

Screwed down and working fine. The two drives (bays 2 and 3) share SATA data and power, which is not a problem. My SSDs rarely overwhelm the SATA 3 "600MB/s" bandwidth. Just put the actively used drive in bay 1 and the secondary drives in bays 2 and 3. Love that. Thank you

Bought to keep the cables of my 3x 3.5" hard drives neater. But instead I ran into a few problems. TLDR; If If you tried two, you'd better not use this backplate and connect directly to SATA 1 cables instead.A small 1-sheet instruction on one page is incomplete.It doesn't mention that the metal backplate with 4 screws that attach to the drive cage are preinstalled, is removed.The 4 end caps on the back do a poor job of aligning the platter to allow all drives to fit in. With "correct"…