Comments on: Antec Mini P180 Micro-ATX Case Review

By: x.clay

x.clay — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:36:19 +0000

Cooler Master cases typically have the drives sideways. They are easier to install but you get almost no airflow into the main portion of the case.

By: klw

klw — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:40:27 +0000

This is a very nice case, the problem I have with it is that it is the same size as some mid-tower ATX sizes, and the whole point of moving to mATX is to have a smaller build (at least it is for me).

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By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:21:40 +0000

This series of cases P1xx all have the drives facing the front instead of the side. Probably because the entire front is the air intake and rotating them sideways would block the airflow with the side of the HD cage.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:10:29 +0000

Grayson, yes this is a very good point and it would also make connecting up the power and SATA cables to the hard drives much easier as you are not having to contend with PCI devices making it quite fiddly to get everything plugged in.

By: Grayson

Grayson — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:28:51 +0000

Joe, if they made the case any wider it would be full atx size. My only quibble is that it would be nice if the hard disk cages were rotated 90 degrees so that the ends of the hard disk are pointed towards the side of the case making them easier to swap out and connect, have seen this feature on other cases and it is very handy.

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:51:30 +0000

The Top Removable Hard drive tray holds 3 hard drives and if you wish you can put 2 more in the front bays in the Power supply section. With 1T drives being so cheap, I am not sure you need even 3 let alone many more unless you are a P0rn Collector

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By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:41:04 +0000

Yes this is a good point but i still feel it would have been better to make the main chamber a little wider in order to accodomodate larger graphics cards if users have mutliple HDDs.

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:20:33 +0000

If you put the Hard drives in the top removable bay and removr the bottom removable hard driver bay there is plenty of room for even the largest Video card. See picture on this forum
http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=46848&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=60&sid=bb5cf8091c4894e75091e038307ff3a4