A Closer Look - Inside

Looking into the chassis, the interior is actually quite simple. There is a shroud that leaves a gap in the front for the installation of a radiator in this area. You will also find two 2.5" mounting possibilities on it for 2.5" drives.


On the backside, you can clearly see the rubber grommets for cable management, along with extremely well-placed zip-tie hooks. Two more mounting holes for 2.5" drives are underneath the opening for the CPU cooler. So at this point, you may think adding four drives of this size is no problem, but for some inexplicable reason Cooler Master only provides mounting hardware for two of the four mounting locations. Yes, that means you only receive eight rubber grommets and metal pins. No, I don't get why either as that would be an additional few cents and these are not available separately.


In the front, underneath the shroud, is room for two more hard drives, which makes for a total of four bays your can actually use out of the box. As previously noted, the entire front of the chassis is intended solely for cooling, so you can clearly see the three 120 mm intake fans in this area.


The PSU bay in the rear comes with four foam-padded tips on which a PSU will rest. Above that, seven expansion slot covers are held in place by classic screws, while the fan placement on top is pretty traditional, practical even.


Looking at the ceiling from the inside, you can clearly see how much of it is used for possible cooling purposes.


All the cables within the Cooler Master TD500 Mesh are sleeved black and pretty standard-fare. The only unique elements are the ARGB cables and fan splitter. Cooler Master pre-installed separate 3-to-1 cables for each, resulting in a single ARGB connector and a single 3-pin power plug for the cooling units. One of the fans is plugged into a white plug—I assume it is the one driving the RPM signal for all other connected fans.