Streacom DA2 Review - What a Beautiful SFF Case 16

Streacom DA2 Review - What a Beautiful SFF Case

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Value and Conclusion

  • The Streacom DA2 has a street price of around €220 incl. taxes or around US$220 excl. taxes.
  • Excellent assembly experience
  • Understated looks for clean aesthetics
  • Very good ventilation
  • Universal mounting bars make for all the flexibility you could think of
  • Can hold up to six 2.5" drives
  • Can hold 240 mm radiator along with long GPU
  • Tool-less side panels
  • Magnetic dust filter
  • Clean results for an ITX system
  • Ability to squeeze in active cooling without having to sacrifice main component compatibility
  • Available in black or silver
  • Refined and functional set of extras available
  • Top and bottom acrylic covers a bit fragile
  • Header connector for power button/LED tends to slide off easily
  • Glass side panels make things noticeably warmer
The Streacom DA2 is an absolutely beautiful chassis. With its aluminium wrapped body and tool-less side panels, it certainly manages to visually convey the price premium of a higher-end ITX chassis. This dedication to the look and feel is present down to the clean front I/O and its embedded power button.

On the inside, Streacom has managed to squeeze in the same universal mounting system we have seen in previous enclosures, so you can absolutely go wild and create a system packed with storage for an ITX NAS build or opt to squeeze in a 240 mm AIO along with your potent graphics card without breaking a sweat. This essentially makes the Streacom DA2 the most flexible ITX chassis out there, allowing you to go for nearly any scenario you can think of, from a data storage box to a gaming rig or ATX PSU-based HTPC. I would not even be surprised if I end up seeing custom liquid cooling or SFX-based gaming builds with four 120 mm fans alongside an AIO somehow.

If there are any gripes I have, it would be the fact that the acrylic panel, especially the outer layer, is a bit thin and fragile, and the placement of the power cable could be moved over to allow for a bit more room for the various top-blow coolers out there. In addition to that, the power button/LED lead kept sliding off the pins in the front of the chassis, which made things a bit more complicated during cable routing.

However, none of that really takes away from the flexibility you are presented with in the Streacom DA2, which makes it a great ITX chassis.
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