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Imy

Imy

Imy

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I'm planning on getting a full tower case. Most are heavy and most don't come with castors. Was wondering how difficult it is to fit my own. Will it require drilling?
 
Think I might. Can't believe there aren't very many full towers that come with castors. Do all versions of the stacker come with castors or just the original dual-psu version?
 
I've looked at every full tower I can find. There's always something I don't like about each one :(

I don't want to drill etc so I can't rely on a case maybe being able to fit castors straight off the shelf - I would need to know for sure beforehand.

If the case was light then could live without castors.
 
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Well my short list is:

- Thermaltake Armour/Kandalf (Neither have castors)
- Coolermaster Stacker 830/810/STC-T01 (only the STC-101 has castors)
- Lian-Li PC V2000B PLUS Black (already has castors)
 
Like I said, drilling isn't an option. Last time I drilled something, I needed to learn plastering right after :D

Need to fit 9-10 hard disks, 1 dvd-rw, 1 raid controller lcd display and preferably a fan controller and dvd drive also.
 
Main dislike with the Lian Li is I won't be able to have front-access hotswap bays as there aren't enough bays. Would be a shame not to take advantage of such a feature.

Have looked at pc trolleys. They look a bit tacky don't you think?
 
Sorry I know I haven't explained the entire spec.

My original intention was to use sata backplanes to allow hotswap of hdds from the front of the case. I can't do that with the Lian-Li as there aren't enough 5.25" drive bays to do it with. The other cases I've mentioned all have 9 or more 5.25" external drive bays. Then again they all got their issues too.
 
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No way am I'm putting a rack in my home-office! There's barely enough floor space for a full tower case.

At the moment then the hot favourite is the Coolermaster Stacker STC-101 with its 11 5.25" drive bays and castors too.

If I decide against sata backplanes then I'll get the Lian-Li.
 
Oh its not hot-swappable by default. I wasn't expecting to find a consumer case that was. I was planning to use sata backplanes such as the one below to make the drives hot-swappable (hence the need for lots of 5.25" drive bays).

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Yewen said:
Why do you need that on a home rig? Is it really necissary that you can't turn the PC of for 10 minutes for maintainance?
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It wouldn't bother me too much no if I had to do that - its just my preference to be able to take advantage of the hot-swap support of the raid controller. If it supports it why not use it (if possible)?

okimanoob said:
How is the v2000v2100 not big enough ?
It can take up to 12 HDD's in the two racks in lower compartment and has
7 * 5.25" bays.
If you only have 1 x dvd-rw, dvd-rom, raid controller/lcd display + fan controller that still leaves you with 3 bays left ?
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I never said it wasn't big enough to fit all the components I mentioned. It just doesn't have enough drive bays if I wanted sata backplanes as well. They require a fair number of free bays depending on configuration.

I'm not ruling the Lian-Li out, its still on my short list. Its a nice case but there are other cases out there too and I'm considering all options (of which there are very few in my circumstances apparently).

I would order this case right now if I had the floor space.
 
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