The case arrives and I stripped the case down to its bones tonight. You can almost fully take it apart. No top, right side, left side, front - apart from some structure to hold a fan that is too small (but more on that later).
The decision facing me now is which size PSU to put in the case.
Options ...
- EVGA SuperNOVA 750W G2 220-G2-0750-XR - length 7.1" / 180mm
- Corsair AX760i - length 6.3" / 160mm
- Seasonic SS-660XP2 - length 6.3" / 160mm
- Antec EDGE (550, 650 or 750) - length 6.7" / 170mm
- Thermaltake PS-TPG-0650DPCGUS-G - length 7.1" / 180mm
- Silverstone ST55F-G - length 5.5" / 140mm
Using my cardboard mobo and my cardboard PSU (180mm), this is what it would look like with a drive cage in the middle ...
If I go with the 140mm PSU, it looks like this ...
I think the extra cable management options (and airflow) make that a pretty easy decision ... 140mm Silverstone ST55F-G it is.
Speaking of cable management options, from reading other threads re this case, the options are pretty limited. There are some tie does on the top of this box but none at the bottom. You can run your cables outside via the holes but that might be a little sloppy. I just checked and there aren't any tie downs under the case either. However, this is a NAS and I won't be including any GPU. That opens up this space for cable management options ...
I'm going to rotate the HDD cages 180 degrees and make the back of the case the front (you can do that with this case). That is going to make it feel strange each and every time I open it to 'fiddle'. Anyway - that is a plan for cables.