While the upper portion of the case remains fairly open, the same cannot be said for the hard drive compartment. This section tends to be dominated by the unused power cables or the excess length of cable. In fact, there are so many cables in this area that it is difficult to make out the two hard drives installed into the drive slots. The drives also use Serial ATA cables that are smaller than IDE. Two IDE hard drives installed in this area could make the cable management even more difficult.
One thing that could possibly solve this problem is the use of a modular power supply. The problem with this is the amount of space between the power supply and the dividing wall. The power cables were a tight fit as there were and there probably is not enough space for the connectors of a modular unit.
Looking at this picture, it becomes very clear that it would be very difficult to even attempt to use all six hard drive slots as the cables would not have sufficient space. Lian-Li may have done better to try and fit only four drive slots and providing some additional space.
Overall, the PC-V1100B is a very well made case that has a lot of features. The price is very high, but if one is willing to work through a few of the problems the case does an extremely good job at reducing the noise from the components. Of course, the noise reduction is only good for those looking at low noise and not performance such as overclocking.
