The devices are fastened in their bays with the help of plastic latches, which make the whole process much easier. To fasten a device, you insert screws into it, which will serve as stoppers, and then insert the device into the bay where it will be held by the latches. This solution has its drawbacks, though. The device is held by the latches at one side of the bay only – on the other side it is held by the metal tabs cut out in the right side of the bay. Besides the tabs, there’s a slit in the HDD and FDD bays into which the screws inserted into the side of the device can be put. This makes the fastening stronger, but not too much.

The latches are made of plastic. You’ll have to find your own ways of fastening the device in the system case if this latch is damaged.

The case also offers two “closed” bays for hard disk drives. These are fastened with the help of the same plastic latches that don’t provide the necessary robustness of the fastening.

Unpredictable vibration is the most dangerous thing that can happen to modern high-capacity hard disk drives with their accurate precision mechanics and tiny heads that hover on a thinnest layer of air above the platter. No tricks like integrated accelerometers can save a hard disk which is loose in its bay.

Hard disk drives are quite conveniently put into this system case through the left side.

The mainboard is fastened to the mounting plate riveted to the chassis. The fasteners are already in the plate, to save some of your time during the assembly. You fasten the mainboard with screws in 10 points.

There are seven slots for expansion cards in the back panel of the system case. They are covered with reusable brackets, fastened with screws. There’s also an 80mm exhaust fan installed on the inside of the rear panel of the case. You can substitute it with a 92mm fan using the mounting holes provided. A place for a plastic case of a fan is also to be found at the front panel, under the HDD basket. A nice feature about this system case is that all the sharp edges are finished and folded so you can’t cut your fingers. The only exception is the mainboard’s mounting plate – its top is folded but not finished.

This system case comes with a power supply from FSP GROUP Inc., with a specified wattage of 300W and a power-off button on the rear panel. There’s no power connector for the monitor. The PSU offers five Molex connectors for hard and optical drives and two mini-plugs for floppy drives. The cables are long enough for a comfortable assembly of the computer.

The temperature diagrams for the TS-05 follow: