Now we’ll analyze this  beautiful cabinet. We start by describing quickly the outside, then we move inside and finally we explain the main design goals. It looks like that the cabinet lines are balanced, sober and classy, with a brushed aluminum black front, 5 x 5.25'' frontal bays, an elegant power button, in the middle, and a front grille that hides a 180mm fan. Due to the uni-body construction, derived from the previous flagship TJ07, the quality is very high. At the top we find the usual USB 2.0 connectors, microphone and audio jacks, along with a handy tray to accomodate USB flash drives and every kind of accessories that you can imagine. They implemented a particular hard disk management system, which makes this solution a very modern one. In addition, we find an upper ventilation grille for a second 180mm fan; many will wonder why this choice. Wasn’t it better to put it in extraction mode ? Absolutely not, the positive pressure system permits to cool the CPU heatsink in a better way, and we’ve measured by our hand this concept in our Thermalright Macho dedicated review. This positive pressure system even allows to cool passively some heatsinks, and this is a remarkable result !

The side walls are equipped with sound-absorbing material, to make the case even for a HTPC system, or even for system with sound registration functions. Opening the right-side panel, we are in front of a well-ordered structure. The air flow is well studied and we can see a good cable management system. We’ve got an excellent arrangement and practical positioning of dust filters, removable for the two 180mm fans but not for the power supply fan, which is placed at the base. The retention plate of the motherboard is very good, as well as the rear ventilated grids, which allow the already mentioned phenomenon of positive pressure. Even today, after more than 3 years from its launch, this cabinet is a very interesting choice of purchase, and it implements even modern features as regards general component’s cooling.

It’s available in two versions: the first one it’s with the side panel closed and soundproofed, the other one instead it’s arranged with a windowed panel. We can purchase this unit with silver and black colors. The disk management, as we’ve said before, is exemplary, with two removable and very practical HD cages. The FT01 supports even the proprietary hot-swap adapter CP05 (only one CP05 it’s bundled but you can purchase more). In the upper part we got some more air vents and we have also an excellent compatibility with large heatsinks, however we could face some mounting issues with very large motherboards, such as the Asus Rampage II Extreme, whose installation could be really uncomfortable. It was designed primarily for a silent use, possibly targeting an audience of enthusiast users. For them, its high price, justified by the outstanding features, will not be a problem.