Case - 4x Optical Drives - 8x Hard drives

Big.Wayne

Big.Wayne

Big.Wayne

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Hello,

looking for recommendations for an uber case that apart from looking nice has to house a wad of hard disks and optical drives. The whole thing is gonna be air-cooled and would be good to have the option to cool each of the eight hard disks.

Budget Approx £150-£200 thanks! :)
 
That looks quite good, I wonder though is that one of the cases that holds the mobo upside down? I failed to mention I will be using a mobo that features a heatpipe cooler for the NB/SB and I thought these don't work so well when the mobo is inverted?
 
Big.Wayne said:
That looks quite good, I wonder though is that one of the cases that holds the mobo upside down? I failed to mention I will be using a mobo that features a heatpipe cooler for the NB/SB and I thought these don't work so well when the mobo is inverted?
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It is one of those sort but AFAIK the heatpipe worry is poppycock. The pipes have internal wicks so that they function without the aid of mavity.

EDIT: Though Asus's official statement says not to mount them upside down.
 
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No problems with inverted mobo in V2000.

I am running Asus A8N32SLI Deluxe, which also has a heatpipe for both NB/SB, without problems.

:)
 
The Thermaltake Mozart TX comes close in that it has room for 5 5.25" devices and 7 3.5" devices. A Mountain Mods U2 UFO would fit the bill if you're OK with a cube case.
 
Big.Wayne said:
That looks quite good, I wonder though is that one of the cases that holds the mobo upside down? I failed to mention I will be using a mobo that features a heatpipe cooler for the NB/SB and I thought these don't work so well when the mobo is inverted?
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As has been said it makes no difference, I have an Abit AB9 in my v1200+ with no problem.
 
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why do you need so many drives :confused:
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It's not for me its a client with 'loadsa' money who is wanting a media-pc for his home-cinema. The mobo I am intending to use has two IDE channels spare so I thought why not just max them out with Optical drives, I mean there are £20 each and the case has got space for them so why not?

I don't think they generate much heat or indeed draw much power and it may make the machine look a bit more 'out there' :D
 
Big.Wayne said:
It's not for me its a client with 'loadsa' money who is wanting a media-pc for his home-cinema. The mobo I am intending to use has two IDE channels spare so I thought why not just max them out with Optical drives, I mean there are £20 each and the case has got space for them so why not?

I don't think they generate much heat or indeed draw much power and it may make the machine look a bit more 'out there' :D
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And costing your client £60 more for no reason?

Personally, given a large budget, I'd approach it slightly differently. I'd be looking at a small, attractive, HTPC style front end with a single optical drive. But with a second back-end PC with the hard drives, etc. This allows them to store away the noisey server somewhere else.
 
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This allows them to store away the noisey server somewhere else.
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Yup that exactly what he's doing, however the server won't be noisy.

I'm not die-hard to shove more drives in there for no reason, but having 4 DVDs in a machine at once could be quite funky, bit like a CD-changer you have in a car except just four lol. a lot of DVD's come with a few disks these days so could be handy for a couch potato :D
 
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BillytheImpaler said:
It is one of those sort but AFAIK the heatpipe worry is poppycock. The pipes have internal wicks so that they function without the aid of mavity.

EDIT: Though Asus's official statement says not to mount them upside down.
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The cheapskates don't use wicks in MB coolers, it'll still work alright upside down, but just slightly hotter.

Jokester
 
Big.Wayne said:
Hello,

looking for recommendations for an uber case that apart from looking nice has to house a wad of hard disks and optical drives. The whole thing is gonna be air-cooled and would be good to have the option to cool each of the eight hard disks.

Budget Approx £150-£200 thanks! :)
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You want a cube case.

you know the cube is taking over.............................
 
Big.Wayne said:
Hello,

looking for recommendations for an uber case that apart from looking nice has to house a wad of hard disks and optical drives. The whole thing is gonna be air-cooled and would be good to have the option to cool each of the eight hard disks.

Budget Approx £150-£200 thanks! :)
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My silverstone TJ07 can fit 8x hardrives and 4x Dvd drives...if you put two of the harddrives in the 5.25 bays..

http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/tj07/tj07_photo.html
http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/cfp51/cfp51_photo.html

You can fit 10x harddrives and 4x DVD drives went using a silverstone cfp51 with the TJ07 case
 
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