Sharkoon T9 Green Value Edition Case Review

Simon Telford February 2, 2012 Cases, Featured Tech Reviews

Removing the left-hand side of the case might result in temporary blindness but we do think the overall effect is pretty good. Just a shame you won't see most of this when your components are installed.

Even though this is a value case, Sharkoon have included tool-less drive  mechanisms, although all nine of the drive bays are 5.25″ in width.

We are certainly quite impressed that Sharkoon have included 3*12cm fans, 2 at the front, 1 at the back,  all illuminated with the slightly darker than the motherboard tray green. The PCI Slot covers are made of a green mesh, but are extremely thin and need to be handled with care.

The included extras are pretty standard, a bag of screws, some cable ties, and a speaker. However, Sharkoon have also included a secondary faceplate for use with a floppy disk drives, or more likely a 3.5″ card reader to replace those already at the front.

As the bays are all 5.25″, you will unfortunately have to use these brackets to mount any 3.5″ card reader … the screws for such are included.

For the more important 3.5″ hard drives that you have, you will need to use these slightly different brackets and the included screws. While this is a bit fiddly, once set up you can move them around and use the tool-less locking mechanisms. This is certainly by no means the worst or the best solution we have seen in mounting hard drives. Unfortunately, this may leave you with no easy way of mounting any 2.5″ drives, such as SSD's.

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