While looking at the front of the case, you guess why they call it the Samurai. It’s rather menacing from this angle and matches coherently with its brand. The blue ‘eye’ you see in the middle of the case is the main power button and houses a set of LED lights that indicate whether the Samurai is turned on or not. Directly underneath the power button is the front intake grill. The Samurai will accept a standard 80mm fan at this location but you will have to supply your own, as only one fan comes with the case and that is used for the exhaust system located in the rear.

Here we see what the case looks like with the front door ajar. All five of the 5.25" drive bays that the case supports are externally accessible, but unfortunately this applies to only one of the five available 3.5" drive bays. This may not be a problem for those of you without a floppy drive, but we prefer to have at least two externally accessible 3.5" bays so that we can integrate additional functionality to the case such as memory card readers and whatnot.

The door on the Samurai, as well as the entire front bezel, is constructed entirely of thick, sturdy plastic. The door is supported by two hinges and feels well put together. It would definitely take quite a bit of force in order to break the door off of the case. Opening it required more effort than we expected but it wasn’t a problem. The benefit of requiring that much force to open the door is that it will stay closed when you want it to, which is a delightful fact.