Lian Li PC-A7010

There's defintilty not something right with the price of these at the moment. In the states the a70 is around 210$ and the a7010 is $299 so these should be around the £150-60 mark over here.
 
embalse said:
Vibration not an issue with the two A70b' I bought, so I cannot see that as a problem with the A7010.
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Hard plastic HDD mounting won't do much to stop HDD vibration so it might become problem more easily in 7x10.

dillingerdan said:
OK, 1 thing I never really thought aqbout until I saw that review, but are HDDs on SATA only 'hot-swappable' if you use Sata power connectors from the PSU? I'm sure I read that somewhere, and it made sense (at least in XP, where my SATA power connected drives appeared in the remove drive thingy),
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That ambiquity has to do with Molex's lack of 3.3V
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA#Power
But then again I haven't yet seen any HDD specification which would tell drive actually uses 3.3V to anything (because then drive wouldn't work with Molex to SATA adapters) and even 5.25" sized hot swap racks seem to commonly use Molex.

I found out SATA specification (~600 pages) and it has some pages about hot swapping including special electric requirements for device/host (because of transients) but nothing exactly about required voltages.
In addition to physical capability (mechanical connectors) there's also data interface/device-host signaling requirements including dividing hot swapping to two classes, OS-aware hot swapping and "surprise" hot swapping but that doesn't have anything to do with physical connection/power requirements.
And it also strongly recommends that during hot swapping before connectors touch each others drive's body should be grounded to prevent static discharges on connectors so obviously that's where plastic rails aren't good.
 
Only full towers for me, plus I am not a fan (no pun intended) of top panel fans due to the amount of dust they collect.

Nice looking though.
 
embalse said:
Only full towers for me, plus I am not a fan (no pun intended) of top panel fans due to the amount of dust they collect.

Nice looking though.
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Yeah I'm fine with mid towers and the top vent can always be sorted to not let dust in. Very close to purchasing :)

edit: after looking at some pictures of the top mesh on the 140mm its very tightly done so dust wont be an issue IMO.

I've got a antec 300 here with massive honey comb style and that doesnt let that much dust in.
 
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Tetsu said:
Yeah I'm fine with mid towers and the top vent can always be sorted to not let dust in. Very close to purchasing :)

edit: after looking at some pictures of the top mesh on the 140mm its very tightly done so dust wont be an issue IMO.

I've got a antec 300 here with massive honey comb style and that doesnt let that much dust in.
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I always thought it would not be a problem for me and that I would remember to cover the top fan at night or when not in use. 9/10 times I forgot, but thats me "memory like a sieve"
 
embalse said:
I always thought it would not be a problem for me and that I would remember to cover the top fan at night or when not in use. 9/10 times I forgot, but thats me "memory like a sieve"
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suppose depends how dusty the environment is also, I get minimal dusk in the 300 so this is only going to be a lot less. Did a quick search and from the posts I read the a17 is a low dust case. I'm sold :D
 
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embalse said:
Ya mine is too dusty for my own health let alone a computers.
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I used to live in a standard city street and dust was always bad. I still live in the city but my house backs on to a woodland area now and dust here is minimal, its also really cool when its hot due to the micro climate you get In woodlands :)
 
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