Home-made NAS box suggestions

[Phemo]

Hi guys,

I've recently acquired a VIA mini-ITX motherboard and since I've been looking into buying a network-based HD enclosure or two recently and have been unable to find sensibly priced gigabit ones, I thought I might as well use the VIA board and make my own.

Basically I need a case or some sort of box that can hold a small PSU (maybe a Shuttle PSU or something) mini-ITX board and 3 or 4 hard drives. I'm not bothered about an optical drive of any sort. I'm also not too worried if I have to do any modding although I'm not exactly an expert

I realise that cases ideally suited to this purpose will be very few and far between but I'm open to even imaginative suggestions although I don't want it to be too ghetto. Obviously the smaller, the better. So far the best thing I can think of is getting an old Shuttle case off an auction site and botching everything into that.

So, anyone got any better ideas?

 

[BigDom]

How about somethign liek

OcUK Value Aspire X-Qpack Cube Case - Silver - £59.95 (£70.44 Including VAT at 17.5%)

Gives room for up to 5 disks although too many might add a lot of heat into a case this size.

 

[Yewen]

May be a little big but the specs of the Lian Li V300 seem to be right what you want, with the addition of the drive bay expander from the 6077 style cases.

Have not used it myself yet mind.

 

[Grimgoth]

erm, did a quick google search on itx cases.... try looking up the venus series of cases 669 is black i think, anyway, they seem pretty small, with space for one internal 3.5, one external 3.5, and 2 5.25 optical drives, that I am sure you could convert to fit even more hdisks. Size: 200 x 225 x 330 mm
can't be bothered to convert into mm the aspire q-packs dimensions....
13.8" x 11.2" x 9"