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With Power Supply: No Power Supply Mounted: Bottom With Side Panel Window: No External 5.25"" Drive Bays: 1 External 3.5"" Drive Bays: No Internal 3.5"" Drive Bays: 2 Internal 2.5"" Drive Bays: 1 Front Ports: Microphone x 1, Headphones x 1, USB 2.0 x 2
I use the Zalman ZM-T2 for a small, cheap server i built. For the price, fantastic case. Like most of Zalmans offerings, it is made mostly of plastic and thin steel, but it still feels solid enough that moving it isn't panic inducing.
The form factor of said case is very interesting. They position the hard drive cage over the motherboard, in order to squash the form factor smaller. It works better than i expected it to, to be quite honest. Mounting the hard drive, (be forwarned however, it was a fiddely process of moving wires and getting the position of everything just so) left a solid feeling mount to the front panel. there is a side cage that can accept an additional 3.5 hard drive and a 2.5 ssd (or laptop drive) so for a medium end gaming rig or a small cheap server it works out just fine. Cooling is where it falls short, the case being fairly small means the larger coolers just plain wont fit.
On the whole, if smaller form factor for minimum budget is your goal, this would be an excellent place to start looking. Absolutely perfect for a cheap server using stock cooling like i built.
Pros
Cons
Small footprint, great price, fits a lot more than it looks like it should
Hard drive mounting is awkward, cable management is basically non existant
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4
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