Let’s look at some of the features that the Thermaltake Kandalf VA9000SWA Chassis brings to the table.

The removable hard drive cage at the rear of the case is really an invaluable feature with a 90mm exhaust fan at the back of the drive cage. By simply removing the huge thumb screw on the cage, and depressing the aluminum latch at the top, it slides right out towards the user.

Above you see the actual HDD cage with the huge thumb screw. It is quite easy to remove and install the hard drives of your choice. Below you can see an Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 80GB HD mounted at the rear of the cage, and you can see the 12cm exhaust fan.

Above is depicted the aforementioned 12cm fan that serves as the exhaust fan for the removeable HDD cage. Below is a drive mounted in the tray.

On to the Dual USB 2.0, IEEE 1394 Firewire, Audio & Speaker ports for added functionality at the top of the Super Tower case, plus increased ventilation as a result of the engineering design. Here are a few photos below that will help describe these functionalities.

The above picture was taken from above the case looking down at the top mounted ports. Note the spring loaded lid is partially popped open to show the plastic latch and spring loading mechanism.

Finally this last picture above, shows the underside of the top ports and how Thermaltake smartly engineered the ports with a 62% opening ratio to allow hot air to escape the case around the port housing. If you look really closely at this picture above, you will see the mounts for a 90mm exhaust fan that Thermaltake provides with the Kandalf chassis.

Last we will see how the hard drive cage exhaust fan provided by Thermaltake with the Kandalf chassis, appears at the rear of the case.