Antec Finally Announces Performance One P380 Chassis

[N.Broekhuijsen]

It looks like we'll finally be seeing a new flagship case from Antec arriving soon.

Antec Finally Announces Performance One P380 Chassis : Read more

 

[thundervore]

So this is their flagship case that will cost over $200, have two 5.25 that customers cannot use for CD rom drives or fan controllers, and they still have a 120mm fan mount in the back instead of a 140mm?

OMG. what is worse is that the IO panel cables route directly into the 5.25 bays lmao!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-FPJuiuCxE#t=118

Ill wait for the new design team to get hired.

 

[turkey3_scratch]

An optical drive bay not used for optical drives...

 

[someguynamedmatt]

Instead, they simply serve as a place to hide cables and clutter.

5.25" Reservoir, anyone? I don't understand why everyone's so offended by those two drive bays. What are you trying to put in this case that they're getting in the way of? If you need more than 8 hard drives, you probably shouldn't be using a desktop case in the first place.

 

[Robert Ostrowski]

why would anyone need 2 optical drives if there is a slim bay anyway? 2 5.25 bays can be very useful since it's not 2005 anymore.

 

[techguy911]

Who designed this case? what a horrible design i would not order any of these for my store.
I have bought $180 thermal take towers that have 180mm on top, 2 120 mil fans in font led lit red ,180mm fan on side and 140mm fan at the back.
And is quiet had lots of customers comment on how quiet they were.

 

[Caanis Lupus]

I saw another case similar that had the 5.25" mounting area but not accessible walking through a big box store. Thought how ridiculous of a design point it was to waste the metal on supports for 5.25" devices yet not accessible. The case was nice looking(red and black) on the outside but I actually watch blu ray on my 2nd monitor and have not committed the disk space to rip ALL my discs down to the network. Yeah I am one of the dinosaurs still buying discs.

 

[belardo]

There are better cases that cost less. I still don't see why its such a challenge for case manufactures to make a hidden door for an optical drive-cover to hide ugly drives.

Some older cases, such as the white Antec P120 includes two drive covers. Of course, nowadays - a drive is rarely used - pretty much to install an OS and large programs. Either thou, for the most part *it should be* reliable to always install an OS from a flash drive...

The other issue is that some people have slow internet performance or limited bandwidth in which DL a 4~8GB ISO file is problematic ~ and far faster to get the disc from a store.

Or... what if the user wants to play or burn BluRay discs?

 

[RazberyBandit]

[quotemsg=15106181,0,338017]...I don't understand why everyone's so offended by those two drive bays. What are you trying to put in this case that they're getting in the way of?...[/quotemsg]

Here's a short list of devices I might add that I simply cannot because I'd have no access to them:
A fan controller, a multi-card reader, and (brace yourself for this one) an optical drive/burner!

I have no issue with the fact that the 5.25" bays exist. The problem is that these bays are completely inaccessible when the front cover is installed. That's an issue that could easily be fixed by using something as simple and ancient as a hinged door. Take a look at the Fractal Design Define R5 for an example of that feature being utilized quite well.

 

[synphul]

It's not a terrible looking case and I'm not against antec (at least their older offerings when I believe the quality was better). I'm still using an old sonata ii. What I find hard to swallow is the price tag for what have become basic features in most cases. One of the cases I've been looking at (to give an example) is the phanteks enthoo pro which offers much more versatility, better cooling options, a decent side window, well organized extras (screws and mounts) and comes in at half that price. Those kind of design/layout issues if you want to call them that show lack of thinking things through properly and is more expected of a $70-80 case. Slapping some aluminum on it doesn't make it a mercedes.

 

[someguynamedmatt]

[quotemsg=15114534,0,206440]
I have no issue with the fact that the 5.25" bays exist. The problem is that these bays are completely inaccessible when the front cover is installed. That's an issue that could easily be fixed by using something as simple and ancient as a hinged door. Take a look at the Fractal Design Define R5 for an example of that feature being utilized quite well.[/quotemsg]
...I suppose there's the problem. This is a fairly nice case in itself, but it really falls a bit flat when you compare it to some of the cases already on the market, like most of Fractal's lineup and cases like Nanoxia's Deep Silence (I really wish all versions of this were available in the US). I can agree with that; they definitely could have done a much better job laying out the front half of this case.