Antec Signature S10: The Second Coming of Antec?
Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2015 4:57 pm
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pg 5. looks like the HDD chamber fan is an exhaust. still odd to have it fight convection...CA_Steve wrote: I am a little perplexed by the hard drive cooling. If the fan is meant to be an intake on the bottom, why is the filter on the top?
Hi Mike, just saw you guys’ article on that new Antec case. I think you may have forgotten SilverStone when singing Antec’s praises! Our Temjin TJ09, which was released in 2006, was the first retail case to feature a gap bypassing hard drive cage for direct airflow:
http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/chassis/7 ... is/?page=2
Our TJ10 that followed in 2008 and is still on sale today has the same layout:
http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=146
The TJ11 released in 2011 also has that gap, but with motherboard tray rotated:
http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=292
So saying the S10 “may inspire Antec’s competitors to copy,” I think you should instead said that Antec was inspired by SilverStone!
IMO, the consumer PC business really dropped the ball with cabling. If it were part of the case instead of the PSU (as seen with many servers), I would have spent far less time arranging wires over the years. They could've standardized this reasonably when modular PSUs appeared...Das_Saunamies wrote:Vertical cabling, especially for HDDs and power, has been a pain for too long already; it's nice that I can hide cabling behind the mobo tray and bay cages, but it would be nicer still if I could close the side panel without meticulously arranging each cable individually. We're better off than in 2005, but things could still use improvement. Ducts, anybody (automatic 100% fit, top closes on a hinge)? Or, for $499, backplanes? Cable hubs?
Cabling becomes an entirely different game when you shrink down to mini-ITX, of course. Would probably need that separate section just for the cables... or shorter cable options for fully modular PSUs.
Yeah, it's all standard connectors and pretty much standard layouts. I knew servers had backplanes but I had no idea they had integrated cabling - that sounds pretty much perfect.HammerSandwich wrote:IMO, the consumer PC business really dropped the ball with cabling. If it were part of the case instead of the PSU (as seen with many servers), I would have spent far less time arranging wires over the years. They could've standardized this reasonably when modular PSUs appeared...
It's a kind of integrated cabling as in the PCs you by from Lenovo, HP an Dell, they use preconfigured cables that have the excact length and are neatly tucked away inside the case. This kind of cabling can only be made if the manufacturer custom designs all interior modules and knows the exact locations of every cable header.Das_Saunamies wrote:Yeah, it's all standard connectors and pretty much standard layouts. I knew servers had backplanes but I had no idea they had integrated cabling - that sounds pretty much perfect.