The ever helpful ticos unboxed all the parts I ordered1 and assembled my computer for me. It looks reasonably put together, but my knowledge of computer assembly is zilch. I don't even know where I'd place my two hard drives with this setup.
The interface to the motherboard has no cover. That appears a recipe to expediate the dust collecting process.
- Save for the SD card reader, which they did not include and did not bother to tell me it was missing until after I was picking up the package from the post office. [↩]
From looking up the case briefly it looks like there's supposed to be an attachable cage for HDDs. (The kinda weirdness you get with "compact" designs I guess.)
The missing back cover is called the I/O shield; one purpose is EMI reduction, though perhaps that's a lost cause on a case where a whole side is nonmetallic. It was supposed to come with the motherboard.
> From looking up the case briefly it looks like there's supposed to be an attachable cage for HDDs. (The kinda weirdness you get with "compact" designs I guess.)
The attachable cages are inside the case.
> The missing back cover is called the I/O shield; one purpose is EMI reduction, though perhaps that's a lost cause on a case where a whole side is nonmetallic. It was supposed to come with the motherboard.
Yup, they took the manual + sata cables + io shield that came with the motherboard. (They likely only had a used motherboard to sell me.)