Intern sets the front panel requires a 19-pin header connector, through the only current (June 2012) mainboards. Otherwise, the additional purchase of a corresponding plug-in card (eg. Silverstone EC04) is due.
The connecting cable is measured over all inclusive plug 60cm long. That was enough for me, but not much. A particularly elegant installation of the cable in the housing is in any case impossible. In a conventional arrangement of 3.5 "plug bottom and 5.25" above could make the use of a plug-in card and a motherboard from the more distant 5.25 "withdrawable difficult the given cable length.
However, the problem of the given cable length should not occur unless the cable directly to a thoughtfully arranged header connector on the motherboard (eg. Asus P8Z77 or similar) can be plugged.
The frame made of black plastic affects me and thus purely subjective considered sufficiently stable and high quality. It can be easily by up to four screws fixing the housing. Screws are included.
In conjunction with a PCIe plug-in card, I was able to record any functional problems with me. I have been using about 215 MB s can be transferred from a USB flash drive data to an SSD /. It is easy to imagine that a significantly longer internal connection cable could cause problems given the 3.0 transfer rates of USB. Therefore, given small cable length of me is also not judged negatively, but accepted as possibly technically necessary.
