User Experience

The reason why we decided to look at the Thermaltake Armor in the first place was its ability to handle full E-ATX motherboards, its numerous bays, and lightweight aluminum construction. So now let's see how it fared once components are in there...

When we installed a dual-Xeon mobo, its edge came up right next to the edge of the bays.  Looking at the photo below, long optical drives and devices such as pull-out HDDs  would easily hit the MB:

Another point of interference is the uppermost bay where again, long 5.25" devices would hit the connectors for the top-mounted USB, 1394 and audio ports.  

Other than these two issues, the Armor was easy to assemble, very lightweight, and provided the mounting holes for the dual-Xeon's chassis-mounted heatsinks.  5.25" devices were easily installed using the plastic retaining clips, and can be further reinforced if desired with standard screws.  Installing massive power supplies such as PC Power & Cooling's 850W SSI and 1KW PSUs required removing the top-mounted ports first, but that was a minor inconvenience.  All in all, one can have up to 10x 5.25" devices, 1x FDD, and 3x rear-mounted HDDs, provided your 5.25" did not interfere with your MB.