Question 1

What type of cooling does this have? I see the rear 120mm in the picture, but is there any other place to put fans?

Accepted Answer

There is an additional 120mm fan mounting position on the back side of the hard drive rack.

Question 2

Is the front bezel  a black shiny finish or is it matte black.? 
Would appreciate all answers.
Thanks.

Accepted Answer

It's a matte on the front.  The rest is shiny.

Question 3

Can I want to buy this case, the Antec Sonata Proto?
What's preventing me from buying it is that I see no
way to connect SATA data and SATA power cables
to the hard drives.

I see no access to the SATA drives ports once the
hard drive is inserted into the drive slot.

I have downloaded the user manual and the section
that describes how to connect cables seems completely
impossible to believe.

Please explain how to gain access to the ports,
or provide some other explantion.

I really want this case, but I'm not willing
to risk buying it only to find out that
I can't connect any SATA cables to the hard drives.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Accepted Answer

Hi Bruce,  I have purchased several of these cases and never had any issue running either the SATA data or SATA power cables to the drives.  I usually snap the connectors into the drives prior to sliding them into the rails.  There are plenty of cut-outs and places to run cables.  Yes you do have to partially pull out the drives to get to the connectors but that is the beauty of this multi-drive rail system.  I always use this case or it's cousin that comes with the power supply (depending on the level of system I am building and its power requirements).

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