With cues dragged from the dragon series of casings, cracking the doors on this case was a bit of a pain at first, but really nothing more than a trifle afterward, what with the door swinging outwards on a rolled aluminum. Though peeling the left panel away will let you see the interior of the case in the entirety, peeling away the right panel is something entirely without fruition; as you’re greeted by an unbroken metal expanse, yet unlike the dragon cases which seem to have so inspired this chassis, there’s almost no room back here to hide widely hanging wiring. Back around to the left side, though, the dominating feature of this tiny case inside are the entirely linked drive cages, attached to the rear of the case via another unwanted dragon inspiration – the support bar. Slipping down from the four tool free optical bays, two external floppy bays can be seen, flanked below by five hard disk bays, each of which is properly mounted, and the drives to which are fed in on plastic rails, with magnetic nubs. This cage closely harbors a 120mm fan up the front, which blows through the myriad of tiny holes, over the drives, and into the case.

Thankfully, the tool free features implemented in the optical and external bays are better than those found on the I/O covers. When lifted and pulled back, the rail lets all cards go free, meaning that any tense cables leading to ports on the backplane will cause cables and plates to go free quite easily. The only advantage to this over the traditional system of individual locks is that it allows for the use of bigger video cards, complete with their dual slot cooling solutions. On the plus side though, once locked down, the objects aren’t going anywhere, so they’ll be as steady as tubes coming in above the crossbar, or the 120mm fan mounted to the back panel. To Cooler Master’s credit, the fans are silent and the construction is rigid, though the only way to hide any cabling inside this case is to route it underneath your motherboard, or to route it down next to the board, under or over any cables coming that way. Overall, though the inside of this case is well designed, it’s more difficult than it should be worth to get things installed, unfortunately. With this tour done, it’s time to get to the conclusions – that is, of course, after taking a brief look at the manual, and the box of goodies.