ML10B SilverStone Technology Super Compact and Modular Mini-ITX Chassis

This chassis is highly portable and modular and has the option of installing a 9.5mm disc drive or various combinations of SSD/HDD.The design could have been improved by putting the disc drive under rather on top of the motherboard so as to provide more airflow to the cpu cooler. It would also have been better to have a bigger hole for a 7.4x5.0mm power connector which is widely used by the common 19V laptop brick than be limited to a 5.5x2.5mm connector.One big oversight in the design is that even though the disc drive has to be 9.5mm, using a 9.5mm bezel leaves a big gap between the bottom of the bezel and the rest of the front panel. Did Silverstone expect all 9.5mm drives to come with spare 12.7m bezels? At the very least they should have provided a front panel cut-out that accommodates a 9.5mm bezel without leaving big gaps underneath. Also, the top of the hole in the front panel is too close to the disc drive's bezel, which can make it problematic for reinserting the tray of disc drives (not every drive is slot-loading).

Had lots of issues with this case it looks great on paper but... the USB header is too short and too stiff if you were going to use the short version of the case it would be almost impossible to attach. Depending on where you're USB header is on your motherboard it may or may not reach because the cable is short and will not reach the entire motherboard. The USB header cable is stiff and would be very difficult to plug into your motherboard if you use the shorter faceplate on this case. The Wi-Fi antenna hole on the back of the case it's too large and I had to use washers to be able to use the standard quarter inch antenna fitting. The cut out for the optical drive door it's too small and rubs on the top I tried it with three different Slimline Optical Drives with the same results. Had to find four tiny washers to mount my 2.5 inch hard drive to the drive mounting plate to keep the motherboard on the drive from contacting the plate and shorting out. Hopefully Silverstone will fix these issues on their second run at this case otherwise I'd avoid it... FOLLOW UP... After talking to silverstone... talk to the Silverstone support guy to explain the problems I've been having with the case he said thanks for the info but I was on my own they would do nothing to help me and extension cable would have been nice but I'll be out another 15 bucks to get one. I could return it but I'm not going to because it's the only case I could find that has a Blu-ray Drive slot that has a small footprint. So 6 washers are USB header expansion and some filing on the faceplate to expand the drive opening and I have it working. So I say again beware it may take a considerable amount of engineering to get it the way you want it.m

Optical drive bay cover looks nice using slot load drive. Not giving it a 5 star only because the back power input jack hole is not big enough for 7.4x5.0 DC jack used by DELL & HP power brick. Also no USB-C & headphone/mic jacks.

This is a nice case, the paint job feels good. However its still basically a very small steel and plastic case...therefore its very overpriced.

Overall this is a nice case. I wanted to point out the 9.5mm drive slot is actually 12.7mm.