Starting with details less critical and ending with the most delicate.
- The location of the bottom of the housing supply is not very clever. That makes it inaccessible to the general switch times when this remedy is needed.
- The front removable drawers are justified only in order to change hard drives as needed, and it requires having other drawers available, which is not the case. Only two drawers are filled and there is no possibility to buy extra. In case of frequent change of hard drive, I advise not to aim the drawers and push them to the connectors before putting the cover, but beware if you have to transport the case.
- A case of this weight requires solid handles to be able to move if necessary (as there are in other models of the brand), certainly there has wheels and that's fine, but it's not enough . When the case is closed there is no outlet. If necessary for transport, remove the side panels. It lightens a little weight and it gives a good grip.
- The LEDs indicating the switching on and HDD activity, besides being tiny, are placed below the USB ports, so that when there is something plugged into these outlets can not see the .
- Documentation of the connection is incomplete, only the most obvious connections are documented, which is at least superfluous if not obvious. However some connectors require a little research to find out what they correspond.
- A disturbing detail, the facade of e-SATA plug is connected to the inside by a normal SATA cable to be plugged into the motherboard, if I'm wrong, thank you for connoisseurs to explain why. (Thanks to Matthew for his comment lowest that answers my question).
- The side panels are difficult to replace, carnations do not show up in front of the screw holes, perhaps this is a particular problem in my case, I was obliged to enlarge the drill to facilitate laying.
- The side drawers, designed to facilitate the implementation of hard disks, collide against a great difficulty. Having drawers on slides is attractive, but it is on the side of the connectors it thickens. To install the hard drives must remove both side panels, that of the bottom allowing access to the connectors. Or power cables should be bent in order to replace the side panel. These cables are very large, are difficult to fold and when you arrive, the force of bending risk disconnecting the cable. Since the connectors come in threes in the same cable, it can not connect two adjacent discs, folding is impossible. We should have the same design plug-in system on the drawer fronts, with catches at the bottom and a single power outlet (flawless). Indeed, what is to have drawers if one is not still taken to the bottom? Finally, once you have successfully installed the hard drives on these slides we did not want to start again. And let it there. Council replace big too rigid power cables not the most flexible cable or add extension cords four son by connector.
For cons, the fixing system and connection of front drawers is excellent, we wanted everything to be like that. Unfortunately there are only two, the other four are empty bays. Regarding the latter, it is intended to receive CD / DVD burners but the opening and loading of one who is placed highest are embarrassed when there are cables attached to the front. Avoid using this first bay.
- AND FILLS. The springs holding the top and front covers are only plastic tabs, one false move or a little rough handling or too frequent breaks them, I broke into the first day. After several openings, all the tabs are broken. For a case supposed to be tough this is a joke!
- The mounting system hard drives to side drawers via mobile rivets held to the frame by rubber washers is not developed. After several changes the dress in the washer (holding the rivet) may tear (in my case, a washer was torn from the first installation). In full use of the computer, the rivet may fall inside the box and the disaster is obvious. It would have required that the rivet is secured to the drawer.
My advice to future users paste the entire rivet washer system tray, or to lay the rivets and fix hard drives to the drawer by the conventional screw system (two screws enough). It's safer and a lot easier to fix. And if we are supposed to change frequently hard drives, just let them rest in the drawer (better yet by interposing a non-slip tape). They risk nothing, as long as we do not move violently CPU.
In short, apart from the elegance and the relative strength of the product, the other qualities attributed to him are not as obvious, especially since, despite its volume, it is not as spacious to accommodate all the connections necessary nor even less to work comfortably in.
Conclusions. I am disappointed with this purchase. If I had to start again I would go see elsewhere, this time enriched with a new experience.
