A Closer Look - Inside

To gain access to the interior, one has to remove the two thumb screws holding each side panel in place. It looks like Thermaltake has spent some time retooling this case to its own specifications, as the hard drive bays are turned and spread further apart to hold the large plastic trays. Besides that, the chassis seems to feature a fairly standard interior. This becomes apparent by the lack of openings to route cables behind the mainboard tray. It seems like no time or effort was spent to add such a feature to the Armor A60 - something most other gaming cases do have. This is especially frustrating, as the hard drive connectors are found on this side of the case, so you have no easy way to hide any cables within the Armor A60. You can also see the very basic implementation of the USB 3.0 connectivity, with a cable simply routed through the opening for the mainboard.


The hard drive bays are much more interesting to look at, as Thermaltake has included separate plastic trays for each hard drive. Even though this chassis is smaller than the A90, you can still fit a total of six drives. The very top bay also has a simple SATA data and power connector, so that you may use this one as a hot swap bay in combination with the opening in the side panel. All the other bays do not have such a connector and there seems to be no possibility to add any further such adapters to each bay. Thermaltake has retained the same screw-less system for the optical drive bays as we have seen in its bigger counterpart. The past has shown that these work fairly well, but are still no viable replacement to traditional screws.


Turning our focus to the rear of the chassis, the bottom PSU bay still holds that very annoying support bar for the power supply. This unit comes preinstalled and only allows for the shortest unit to be installed without having to be moved back a bit. Since users generally install the power supply last, tipping the entire, filled chassis over to reach the screws on the underside of the case is fairly annoying. It would have been much simpler to place rubber bumps on the floor to keep the PSU from weighing down on the rear case wall and in turn would also act as an anti-vibration measure. I am being so harsh on this, as Thermaltake has been using the above method for quite some time, while other case manufacturers managed to design systems which are more functional and user friendly.


As you can see, the afore mentioned screws for the PSU support bar are located on the bottom of the chassis. There are various holes to move it back in case you are using a larger power supply. A simple metal mesh has been placed over the opening vent for the PSU bay, which should hold off most dust particles, but is not easily removable for cleaning.