The CoolDrive Lite is designed to take up a five and a quarter bay on the case and utilize a 4 pin pass through Molex plug from the power supply for the CoolDrive Lite’s fan. The Molex pass through is no big deal, but if you already have quite a few of these pass through Molex connectors already, then inside of your case will start to look like a spaghetti mess. There is room for an upgrade from Cooler Master to change the four pin Molex to a three pin plug so it can be connected to motherboard for monitoring purposes. The CoolDrive Lite is made from Aluminum which is a very good material for heat transfer. The fan within the CoolDrive looks a little on the weak side, but really moved some serious air. After looking at the CoolDrive for a while I could see that it is possible for Cooler Master to design a model with two fans as there was adequate space for one.

The installation is no big deal. The back end of the hard drive is exposed to in the interior so if you are using some high end IDE ribbon to connect the HD to the motherboard you don’t have to be concerned about the cool causing interference between the HD and the high-end ribbon. This also provides you the ability to go from an IDE drive to a SATA drive without having to replace the CoolDrive Lite completely.