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The side panels are held to the rest of the case with a pair of Philips notched thumbscrews per panel giving the case totally tool free entry.
As you can see, the side panels also feature a padlock loop for each side for added security and of course the front door panel which hides the external drives, power switch and 10 device LED's is lockable.
The following shot shows you what the case is like inside. You can see the far drive cage removed and my optical drives fitted plus my X15 and SCA adaptor in the near drive cage.
The motherboard space is a step up from your normal ATX tower and you can see the PSU tray on the top left of the shot. The holes in the mount plane all correspond to a legitimate mount point for any of the numerous ATX specifications.
You get a bag of push through (from the back) mounts that snap into place and provide the screw points for your motherboard. All the screws provided are super shiny aluminium including the thumbscrews and the motherboard screws, a nice touch and in fitting with the rest of the chassis quality.
The top chimney exhaust comes unfitted and taped securely to the drive cages so there's no chance of it coming loose during transit. A set of stick cable guides and zip ties are also provided to help you route cabling around the interior. Especially useful if like me you use an Enermax power supply and have to suffer their monstrous ATX cable so being able to tie it securely out of the way and route it properly is a godsend.
Drive Cages
After having used this case for a while, the first thing you should so when setting up this case for the first time or if you are doing a refit is configure your drives in the cages. For me, setup was a no brainer. Since the big Seagate data drives are double height, you can only get 2 in a single cage. This is versus 6 regular height drives (the disparity is due to the bar split half way down the cage, the pictures will illustrate). So that meant the Seagate drives in the far cage cooled by their own pair of fans (one top, one bottom) and the near cage for the X15 boot drive.
The pictures show my first configuration of the Seagates in the near cage but my final configuration places them in the far cage to make cable routing from the SCSI card easier (since the cables are large).
Here's a picture of the near cage removed from the case with the big Seagate drives in place at the top and bottom.
With the cage removed, you can see the fan array behind the cages for intake cooling. The speaker sits underneath the removable drive cages.
Lets take a look at the interior a bit more and check out the rest of the cooling.
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