4 to 6 Bay ITX Nas cases
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Soldato
Could you upload the piccies?
Also how exactly are hard drives mounted? Is their space on the holes for rubber grommets?
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LMK when you've seen them as I may zap them or use them when I flog the case & mobo
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Soldato
Sorry no other pics and unlikely to be arsed 
Can any of you compare the CFI A7879 with the Chenbro ES34169 (or even with Tranquil's BBS2)?
I'm looking into buying one of these and am worried about the fan noises (70mm - no silent alternatives to be found!) on the Chenbro, which would otherwise have been my first choice (based on looks and build quality).
TranquilPC's offer just looks very slick and offers even one slot more than the other two, but is fixed on Atom architecture (at least that's what you get initially) and I would like to try a low-powered Core i3 or Core2Duo instead of the Atom.
This leaves the Chyang Fun as the logical choice: big and possibly silent 120mm fan (can be exchanged easily), good looks, compact. Am a little worried about the PSU, but it being FlexATX, I could theoretically replace it with a fanless Fortron PSU.
Any comments?
I'm looking into buying one of these and am worried about the fan noises (70mm - no silent alternatives to be found!) on the Chenbro, which would otherwise have been my first choice (based on looks and build quality).
TranquilPC's offer just looks very slick and offers even one slot more than the other two, but is fixed on Atom architecture (at least that's what you get initially) and I would like to try a low-powered Core i3 or Core2Duo instead of the Atom.
This leaves the Chyang Fun as the logical choice: big and possibly silent 120mm fan (can be exchanged easily), good looks, compact. Am a little worried about the PSU, but it being FlexATX, I could theoretically replace it with a fanless Fortron PSU.
Any comments?
I've used a Bluejour case for my home server. Four drive bays and an external 150W PSU so no fan except for the one on my Atom 330.
http://www.bleujour.com/product-as.php?lang=en
http://www.bleujour.com/product-as.php?lang=en
It's a small cube. Mini-ITX board fills the base with four 3.5" drive bays above.
The drives are two side-by-side pairs stacked one on top of the other. There's no internal fan and the PSU is a 150W external brick.
At the moment mine is running with an Atom 330 dual core with the small stock fan providing all the cooling. I've just got two 2TB drives in there at the moment and it sits behind a speaker in the living room. The temps are all ok and the only time we notice it is at night when the power led lights up that corner.
Once WHS Vail is launched, I'll see if the Atom is up to it and if not I've going to swap to a S775 Celeron that used to be in my HTPC on a Zotac board. That will still fit with a slimline cooler but might be a little noiser.
Does look like the place I got mine from doesn't stock it anymore
Soldato
@Cantello. The ChyangFun I am selling uses a 120mm fan - PSU fan isnt noisy either....
Sounds good to me, if by any chance mine will be too noisy, there are plenty of good 120mm fans to replace it with - Noctua being my favourite.
Thanks for the clarification!