Global Win YCC-61F1  Aluminum Server Case

Moving to the rear of the case your eyes are immediately drawn to a grate that looks to be the size of a small air conditioning vent.  Many cases today come fitted with 60 or 80mm blow holes on the rear of the case to exhaust that hot air coming off the processor.  But this is the first 120mm job I have seen.  WOW!  I could drain pasta with that!

The side and top panels are held in place with thumb screws for ease of access.  Upon removing the panels I see this...

The mobo tray is stainless steel.  The tray has a better smooth flat finish than most heatsink do!  I often joke about the quality of a heatsink base being good enough to shave in; well, you really can shave in the reflection this thing gives off.  The tray has three 80mm holes cut into it to allow air to circulate across the bottom of the mainboard to minimize any potential pockets of unwanted heat.  

The action of the motherboard tray, being slid in and out was smooth and almost effortless.  Some mobo trays out there, you need to shake and jerk them out inch by inch.  Not this one, it feels like it is on wheels it moves so nicely.  Best mobo tray I have ever seen.

The YCC-61F1 is VERY roomy.  You will never feel like your stuff is crammed or cramped in this box.  In the specs, the case is billed as having room for 7 hard drive disks.  This sells things short.  Five of these are in a removable housing that sits smack dab in front of your intake case fan.  Remember the large air slits you saw earlier?  Well, they are for a 120mm fan also.  The area between the intake fan and the HDD housing will only allow for a 120x120x25mm fan to be mounted without modification.  (I took a Dremel to the housing and cut out a few extra millimeters so I could mount a Sunon 120x120x38mm low speed fan in there.  The Sunon moves 84 CFM at 35 dBA.  (A second Sunon was placed in the rear of the case as exhaust.)  Thanks go out to Sidewinder Computers for sending over the kick ass Sunon's.

The bottom drive tray is held in place by four thumb screws that are underneath the case's face plate.  After removing these, the small black knob functions as the lock.  Give it a tug and the HDD housing can then be removed from the case with ease.

The floppy drive tray is exactly the same as the larger HDD housing with the exception that it can only hold two devices.  It is attached in, merely by the black knob that locks and unlocks the tray for removal.

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