SilverStone Nimiz Temjin III

Expansion

Though the lack of a completely screw-less design lowers the overall level of attractiveness (to some), there is plenty of space with which to work. At the front of the case, six 5-1/4" bays rest on the top half and six 3-1/2" bays take up the rest of the space for a total of 12 drive bays. The number of 5-1/4" bays does seem excessive, since the majority of typical hardware rigs consist of two 5-1/4" drives at most. The carriage itself is not removable, but the large size of the chassis provides enough room to install drives in all bays. The 3-1/2" section of the drive bays has platforms that are machined out and folded horizontally to allow hard drives to sit, making installation easier. The 5-1/4" section, however, does not have these platforms, which make installing drives a slightly more difficult task.

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Having six 5-1/4" bays seems a bit excessive. Typical system rigs make use of 2-3 bays at most while their main storage medium is hard drives. The extra space could be converted to 3-1/2" bays to allow more hard drive storage, which makes the TJ03 also an attractive chassis for those building storage servers.

The add-on cards are held in place by the provided screws. Again, making these components screw-less using sliding clips, like the Thermaltake VM3000A, would have been an excellent time-saving feature. There is plenty of space with which to work, from installing add-on cards to mounting additional drives, which makes the TJ03 perfect for those who constantly upgrade their systems.

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