Up close and personal...

     Cooler Master has placed all the media ports in the front of the case in a nice grouping just under the power and reset switches. The only problem with this location is the door actually opens over any cords you have plugged in to these ports. The door is designed to guide itself over these cords, but fighting with these cords will become very annoying after opening the door a couple of times. This isn't one of Cooler Master's best designs, but it won't be a big problem if you don't need to access your optical drives very often.

     The front access door hides one of the most innovative ideas to come from Cooler Master; built in removable hard drive trays. The ITower 930 holds 4 Serial ATA hard drives. These trays are NOT compatible with IDE hard drives so don't even try. This is a great idea that I can't believe I haven't seen until now.

     Each tray has a latch that unlocks the hard drive and tray. Once unlocked, the hard drive and tray slide out as one unit. Now, suddenly the ITower 930 becomes the perfect small business server case. Very nice...

1 of the 4 removable hard drive trays.

     Each tray is equipped with a power and active light. Keep in mind that SATA hard drives are hot swappable so swapping out hard drives in the ITower 930 is a piece of cake.

     The rear of the case houses some interesting features as well. There is a large 120mm cooling fan and a sliding lock for the access panel.

     Cooler Master has also come up with a unique way to mount the power supply. The power supply access panel completely removes and the power supply slides in from the rear. Nice idea, but this will not work on all power supplies, especially power supplies with external cooling fans.