Review: TechCom 8110 Front Loading Desktop Cabinet

This is a review of the TechCom 8110 front loading desktop cabinet.

Product page: here

I bought this product from Ebay for Rs. 1899. Item code: 160132581192.

I needed a desktop cabinet that would save some space on my small table.
I have the following drives:
1) Samsung CDRW
2) Sony DVD drive
3) Samsung Hard drive
4) Western Digital Hard drive

When I opened the contents of the package, the first thing that struck me was that there was NO instruction manual. When you have to squeeze hardware into a small space, you need some kind of instructions to see what goes where. But this was conspicuously missing.

Then as I was checking the wires, the HDD LED wire just came off. I noticed that the LEDs were just "stuck" with some white sort of wax like substance, probably some molten plastic. The quality of this cabinet really sucks. Same was the case with the drive bays. The switches were of some bad plastic and were "stuck" to the main case with some whitish plastic substance. Needless to say, those also came off.

I fit my motherboard with CPU, RAM, LAN card and AGP card. After that I fit my 2 CD/DVD drives and my 2 hard drives onto the removable assembly. Then I tried to connect the power and data cables to these drives. This is where I really got frustrated.

The way the assembly is designed, it is impossible to connect all four of these devices to the motherboard
a) due to the limited length of the power connectors
b) due to the limited length of the ribbon data cables

So currently, I am running my comp with the DVD drive disconnected since neither the ribbon cable nor the power cable can reach to it.

This reflects poor design on the part of TechCom. Please do not buy TechCom products if you are looking for good quality. Their products really suck as you can plainly see from the excellent description on their product page.