Re: "full tower" case?

* Roger Hamlett <rogerspamignored@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> "Andrew Preater" <preater+usenet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
>> * Roger Hamlett <rogerspamignored@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> I have seen 'full tower' designs recently, which have only
>>> one 5.25" bay, for a DVD/CD, and have ten or more 3.25" bays,
>>> definately bringing them into 'full tower' status, but
>>> causing problems for people needing a lot of 5.25" slots.
>>
>> Interesting. I am looking for just such a case for a home
>> fileserver / backup server, but I've not been able to find one
>> aside from the CM Stacker which is far too expensive and needs
>> additional cages to hold 3.5" hard disks.
>>
> Unfortunately, they were from an external supplier, so I don't
> know the source. I may be able to find out from them after the
> holiday. The cardboard box was marked as a 'superslim server
> tower case'.

If you find time to do this I'd appreciate it.

> The case holding the most 3.5" drives that I know of in common
> use, are ones like those from Zebronics, which holds 8 3.5"
> internally

I'd never heard of those. Their 'Jamaica' server case looks just
right: http://www.zebronics.net/servercases1.asp I'll have to
investigate them.

> The other units I have seen able to hold this many 3.5" drives,
> sound like the Stacker unit you have already found, with the
> drive assemblies, being seperate racks, which cost extra....

Yeah, that's my main problem. I need a case that holds at least
six 3.5" disks (5x disks in a RAID-5 + 1 'system' disk) but would
like more for expansion later. 5.25" bays are not an issue at
all, I probably won't even need one at install time as I have a
tftp & dhcp server on the network.

Of course it needs to hold enough fans to cool all of these, and
be a reasonable price -- £100 isn't reasonable! :) I don't need
proper server-class hardware, just lots of 3.5" bays.

--
Andrew Preater
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