NZXT Hush Case

Shifting our gaze forward as there is no removable motherboard tray to slow us down, we get a look at the very nice tool free drive mounts and bay areas.  The Hush can accommodate four 5.25" external drives, two 3.5" externally accessible drives and up to five internal 3.5" drives.

The tool free drive mechanism is really nice.  One turn of a central screw removes the clip.  Each clip has two points with a rubber gasket on each to dampen sound. 

Looking at the other side of the internal racks we were shocked to find that the externally accessible drive bays had the spaces cut for the tool free mounts we just saw but they weren't here.  The single mount was indeed sturdy enough to keep the drive in place when installed.  But this makes the entire thinking of rubber mounts on them to dampen sound on one side if the other side is going to shake around (and it did) seem silly.  This was unfortunately the case on both our review units.  Big ding here.

Installation

We installed our Core 2 Duo test bed into the NZXT Hush without incident.  The lack of a removable mainboard tray made things a bit tedious but not uncommonly so.  Work room inside the Hush is fair.  Drive installation we already commented on with clean tight mounts on one side of the optical drive area and zip on the other.  I want to also point out that the sound dampening foam performed much better than I expected.  Even with two additional 120mm fans running at full bore inside the Hush, the sound was tolerable with the case closed which would most certainly not be the situation in any other case.

The aesthetics of the 120mm blue intake fan coupled with the blue lighting accent at the edge of the bezel door were just right; noticeable without being overpowering and obnoxious.  A hard balance but one NZXT got.
 

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