Castors

Imy · 21 Jul 2006 at 14:22

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?

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 ?

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.

Yewen · 21 Jul 2006 at 17:34

Because of your hot swappable requirement your pushing a lot of good cases out of your shortlist.

The Lian Li is really easy to swap hard drives in, and as your not running a mission critical application you can live with 5 minutes downtime to change 4 hard drives.

okimanoob · 21 Jul 2006 at 18:14

Why not just use HDD CADDY's in the spare 5.25" bays for swapping them ?

Messiah Khan · 21 Jul 2006 at 18:30

okimanoob said:
Why not just use HDD CADDY's in the spare 5.25" bays for swapping them ?

Thats what the OP wants to do, but

Need to fit 9-10 hard disks, 1 dvd-rw, 1 raid controller lcd display and preferably a fan controller and dvd drive also.

So thats a lot of 5 1/4" drive bays.

Yewen · 21 Jul 2006 at 18:37

Not caddy's he is using hot swappable devices.

Sort of the same, although his application is not one that it is imperitive that if the worst happened the PC was down for 5 minutes.

Messiah Khan · 21 Jul 2006 at 18:57

Yewen said:
Not caddy's he is using hot swappable devices.

Sort of the same, although his application is not one that it is imperitive that if the worst happened the PC was down for 5 minutes.

Yeah, I realise he is using SATA backplates, which physically are similar. The point I was trying to say is that the reason why he can't simply use caddies, is that he requires so many. IMO the OP should just the a LL v2000.

Imy · 21 Jul 2006 at 18:59

Probably will have to give up on this fancy hotswap idea and get the Lian-Li

Messiah Khan · 21 Jul 2006 at 19:06

IMO, its a much better idea. It will look better, be cheaper(You won't have to buy 9-10 SATA backplates) and the build quality of the LianLi is superb.