Here are two more pictures to satisfy your
eyes on this beautiful case. One is a close-up of the front grill, and the other
is a side-view of the side panel closed.

Unfortunately, there are a few flaws in this
case. Nothing is perfect. It isn't that bad and most of them can be fixed. One
of the bad points is that between the opening for the drive bays and lower part
of the case is too narrow. With all the cables going to the drives to the
motherboard, it is going to severely block air flow. The second bad point is
that the fans at the top of the case will not be any benefit if your putting
large drives in (I.E., CD-ROM Drives).
The drives block all airflow. However, it
does help cool down scsi drives tremendously. That's the reason I am mounting
all my SCSI drives in the 5 1/4 bays. But, if you don't have anything in the
bays where the fans are, they will be an excellent means of exhaust. That 80mm
fan in the back of the case isn't going to be enough exhaust.
Another flaw is in the front panel. The
attachments of the front panel are not very strong. The pegs are hollow and can
be broken. This can be fixed by putting hot glue to fill the hollow pegs which
will strengthen them. Another problem is noise. This case is much noisier than
other cases that I have used. The more fans, the louder it is. But I don't mind
that much. The 10,000 RPM SCSI drives I am installing are far more noisier.
The last thing which annoys me is the reset
switch. It's to small and recessed. I can't see anyone pressing it with their
finger. I have to use a small screw drive or small key to press it. The final
problem is that there is no physical power switch on the power supply. This
helps when soft power off is giving you trouble. But I can live without that.
You do have the option of getting different power supplies, but they are usually
more expensive.
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