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A
Closer Look:::...
Unlike
several of the cases I've looked at recently with "stealthed"
optical drive systems, SilverStone have built in a small
amount of horizontal adjustment to ensure the tab on the
external eject button aligns with the eject button on your
drive. This won't be enough for a few way-off designs but
should be okay for most.
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Optical
Drive Eject Mechanism
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I
like the idea that the Firewire cable features a regular
one-piece connector which is great for 90% of motherboards,
and individual connectors for those whose motherboards feature
non-standard pin arrangements. Admittedly it looks a little
untidy unless you lop them off with scissors but versatility
before tidiness every time for me.
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Firewire
Connector
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Alas
the USB ports don't offer the same flexibility which means
that if your USB headers deviate from Intel's standard pin
layout you're left with two options, do without or remove
the wires and shuffle them into the correct order.
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USB
Connectors
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Chances
are, by the time you've plugged in the two connectors for
the four front USB ports you'll be left with no further
USB headers to connect the front VFD display to. This makes
it all the more convenient that it comes with a traditional
A type cable fitted which can be fed out through an expansion
slot and plugged into one of the external, hardwired USB
ports.
If
you happen to have three USB headers on your motherboard,
or decide only to connect two of the four front USB ports,
an adaptor lets you plug the VFD's Type A cable directly
onto a header. Just to confuse matters, if you fit the front
USB dual connector to just one row of pins and the VFD adaptor
to the adjacent row you can actually get three front USB
ports and the display operating at the same time.
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Motherboard
Header to USB Type A
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