Lian Li PC-60Plus

Internal Design of the PC-60 Plus

As soon as we open the PC-60 Plus, we are taken back to the design of the PC-6070. At the front, the 5-1/4” drive bays are designed the same – as a single piece of metal folded around, which extends all the way to the back of the case at the sides of the power supply mount. None of the drive bays are tool-less, which we weren’t expecting due to Lian Li’s track record for leaving tool-less features out of their products. Each drive requires screws (provided with the case) to be mounted to the drive bays, which proves to be secure and tight to keep the drives from moving around during operation.

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The only change that we see are the two 3-1/2” bays directly under the 5-1/4” bays instead of three as we mentioned earlier. They are meant for floppy drives, memory card readers, etc. - anything that requires external access on the front bezel. The PC-60 had three of these while the PC-60 Plus only has two, which is enough for typical home and business user applications.

The PC-60 Plus also features the same removable HDD cage that we found on the PC-6070. It can hold up to five 3-1/2” HDDs vertically or three HDDs mounted horizontally with the included cage partition. The drive cage is secured to the case by two thumbscrews and can be removed by sliding the cage out through the open side of the case.

As we shift our eyes to the back of the case, we see the expansion slots use thumbscrews to secure any add-in card that we would want to install like our 9800XT video card. One thing we notice is that the frame of the case interferes when using a screwdriver to install or remove these thumbscrews.

It isn’t really a big issue, since they are thumbscrews, but the option to use a screwdriver easily always adds a few points to the final judging of the case.