The Revolutionary SilverStone FT05 is the fifth generation Fortress computer chassis SilverStone has offered. This one offers the same 90° rotated motherboard that the Raven series offers but SIlverStone has completely removed the 5 1/4 inch drive bays that clutter so many chassis. You would think that computer case manufacturers would do two things, take all the Molex connectors out of a chassis and use 3 or 4 pin fan connectors and limit themselves to one or two 5 1/4 inch drive bays. Many enthusiasts completely do away with 5 1/4 drive bays preferring to digitally download or use USB drives to load software.

We are somewhat behind the curve in getting completely rid of Optical drives in our test rigs so SilverStone was nice enough to include a Slimline (Laptop Type) DVD/CD burner that fits nicely into the Fortress FT05 Optical Storage for the Fortress FT05. The SOD02 is a beautiful little piece of hardware in itself and is a slot loaded DVD / CD burner that fits innocuously behind a small barely noticeable slot on the front of the FT05.