Dennis Blough

I appreciate the opportunity to participate in your forum!

Thanks for the info on your W100 build. do you want to fab up 2 more backplane kits and sell them to me for my build? I am 100% certain Thermaltake must have run low on the HDD cages because I ordered and recieved my W100 from NewEgg in early December 2019 and the box came all nice and sealed however it only contained a single HDD cage instead of the 3 it says in the inventory list printed in the manual! So far most everything else has been correct. I need the other two cages as I plan to install 8-3.5" drives in this build. I am a big fan of raid arrays (until 1 drive fails.) Life got in the way and my grand W100 build just kept getting pushed off until this week. I finally have this at the top of my list, basic case built, Z390 Aourus Extreme MB with I9-9900, 64 gig of DDR4 RAM IN PLACE, +600 WATT PLATINUM Power Suppli installed, 3 OF MY 4 OPTICAL Drives installed. NOW I MUST WAIT ON 2 MORE OF THE "W-N" O.D.D. brackets! WHY WOULD TT MAKE SUCH A NICE BIG CASE AND ONLY INCLUDE MINIMAL PARTS. I understand cost control as in your point they don't have back planes for hot swappable drive, only the nice plastic slide in brackets so you think you can make removable drives easily. TT needs an easy to use WELL STOCKED web page for there case pparts, or they can just add the case parts to their current mediocre slow shop now site that seems to focus on bling and diferrent colored coolant and fittings. Where we can BUY these additional items and get them quickly. When I spend close to $400 on a case and $3000 more on the bits and pieces to build my dream system, it really makes me angry that $20 worth of incidentals is going to stop me in my tracks. I agree this is a good case, sure not for a beginner, or someone who doesn't pay attention. As they say in the auto industry "RTFM" when you build this beast. This machine will be my own play thing and the 2080TI video card plus the othe pieces should produce a respectable system. I also started working with computerss in the late 1970s when S100 buss machines cost more than a car and weighed almost as much! My business computer with a 512K ramdrive board and a whopping 5 meg hard drive, 2-8" dsdd floppies cost the original owner a little more than $20,000! I paid him $2,000 for it! A couple years later, I paid $1500 cash for my first no name PC clone and it was faster than the CompuPro business computer which cost someone $20k plus, and costme $2,000. A Z80 just could not match the mighty 8088 from Intel back in the day. If you started with computers in 79, you know what I am speaking about. Maybe TT will read some of these comments and create a website for W100, W200, and P100 parts. If they have the stuff available at realistic prices and they can ship it from their City of Industry, CA locations, I think people would buy all the extra parts in order to fully utilize this nice big case. If you know anyone who wants a good deal on a new P100, I have mine which I decided not to use with my W100 case. The combination was just going to be much to heavy for me to pick up or move! W100 filled is going to require my engine hoist I fear. I do fully agree the toy, plastic wheels would be best suited for linoleum floors only.