Antec Hand-held scanner

Advantages: Quiet at a reasonable price, Lots of internal space
Disadvantages: Big, Front door hinges are plastic, Side grills need regular dusting.

...The case is of a good build quality with no sharp edges for a mid-tower style case. The front panel is plastic with a door that swings open from right to left. It comes with a good size bag of screws and 8 drive rails for the 5.25" bays. This case is NOT supplied with a PSU Both side panels come off very easily. The left side has two thumb screws and two quick release clips. The right hand side is held by two normal case screws. The front panel has a press-in clip on each side and requires both side panels to be removed in order to get behind it. Once inside the case I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of space. The 3.5" drive cage is at the bottom and is held in place by a spring loaded thumbscrew and a latch, the thumbscrew can be a bit fiddly when replacing the cage, but once removed the whole drive cage can be unlatched... Read review

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Advantages: Almost silent
Disadvantages: Need second fan

...them, they are just not pretty! Exposed circuit boards left right and centre. If you like thing to look nice, keep that flap closed. Also, earlier models of this case did not have USB2 compatible ports – however, a quick call to Antec, and they will send you the replacement part, free of charge. The lockable door and side panel are also useful features, helping to protect against curious little kids! Its also worth noted that the PSU and 5.25” drives are in their own supported compartment – and so the PSU is not strained as in other cases, where it is only held in place by four screws. Usability You'd think that all this fancy sound damping technology would be hard to use. Not so - fitting and installing hardware into the case is a breeze, due to the design of its innards. It lacks a motherboard tray, but this is not an issue due... Read review

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Advantages: plenty of drive bays, and excellent cooling
Disadvantages: mother board tray isn't removable, and component installation isn't tooless

...The Antec nine hundred gaming case is a great case for anyone who perhaps has a confident amount of knowledge, to build there own desktop computer. It has many drive bays that can be configured to your personal preference, this is possible as the internal 3.5 inch drive bay cages are removable and can be repositioned, also each drive bay cage can house up to 3 hard drives. There are three different drive bay setups: 3 external drive bays - 6 internal drive bays 6 external drive bays - 3 internal drive bays 9 external drive bays Each drive bay has plenty of ventilation, and each hard drive cage has a blue L.E.D fan included to cool the hard drives. Also an optional 20mm fan can be added to one of the cages for CPU, video card, or power supply cooling. On the top of the case there is a huge 200mm Tricool exhaust fan that can be set... Read review

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