HDD case

bigdave2k9 · 22 Mar 2012 at 18:00

Right them, im looking at extending my current hdd array, but have the slight issue of not enough space to put all the hdd's.
Anyone know of any cases that will hold a good 10 hdd's easily and is respectably cheap and preferably available from overclock.

cheers

King Damager · 22 Mar 2012 at 19:11

Define cheap o.O

Fractal r3 and fractal design define XL comes to mind.

kd

bigdave2k9 · 22 Mar 2012 at 20:35

King Damager said:
Define cheap o.O

Fractal r3 and fractal design define XL comes to mind.

kd

keep it under say £150...... to me thats cheap, ive tryed to get another eclipse 62 case, to match my current one, as i know it has the extra HDD bracket to attach to the top... 2 brackets tack welded together is 6 drives extra... but people keep out bidding me on the bay of e

lmao

King Damager · 22 Mar 2012 at 21:06

It depends on the other uses of the case? What other hardware are you putting in it? And what aesthetics do you prefer? Subtle, sleek or gaming? Windowed prefer or not? Optical bays needed? Because these can often be adapted for more HDDs.

For pure hdd winner it's the Fractal Design Define Xl, but give me more ideas And you can get a cracking case for £150.

kd

bigdave2k9 · 23 Mar 2012 at 06:36

King Damager said:
It depends on the other uses of the case? What other hardware are you putting in it? And what aesthetics do you prefer? Subtle, sleek or gaming? Windowed prefer or not? Optical bays needed? Because these can often be adapted for more HDDs.

For pure hdd winner it's the Fractal Design Define Xl, but give me more ideas And you can get a cracking case for £150.

kd

The fractal XL looks perfect to be fair, considering the case will be sat next to my main pc. its basiclly being used as a huge NAS unit. In this instance sleek is the key and factal wins hands down... unless you know something sleeker? >_>

edit: in answer to whats going init, its a m-atx mobo with a dual core, 4gb ram, power pack, optical drive and a pci-e sata raid card.

King Damager · 23 Mar 2012 at 12:06

bigdave2k9 said:
The fractal XL looks perfect to be fair, considering the case will be sat next to my main pc. its basiclly being used as a huge NAS unit. In this instance sleek is the key and factal wins hands down... unless you know something sleeker? >_>

edit: in answer to whats going init, its a m-atx mobo with a dual core, 4gb ram, power pack, optical drive and a pci-e sata raid card.

Then yeah. Fractal XL is pretty much your best bet

For other sleek cases if you don't quite need the 10 HDD capacity:
Fractal R3 can still manage 8 HDDs.
NZXT H2 can do 8 HDDs.
Coolermaster Silencio can do 7 HDDs,

Out of those though I'd still probably pick the R3.

The Fractal XL actually includes a 5.25 to 3.5 adaptor, so you could get 11 HDDs in it out of the box. However if you didn't use this you could technically get:
Fractal XL: 10 HDDs
If you used one optical drive bay, you'd still have 3 left over, which you could put this in:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-410-LL&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat=1770
Giving you a total of 14 HDDs.
The Door would also cover up the front of the Lian Li, so you'd still have that nice sleek look

kd