Looking for something unusual in a case...

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OK... I've only seen this on a Dell server cases so far, but I thought it was a really neat feature and if I can find another case that has it I'd like to go for it:
The case I saw had the drive bay cage attached to the side panel rather than to the front of the case. The side panel was on hinges so it swung out like a door when opened rather than coming off completely, and the drive cage would swing out with it. I thought this was neat because it gave you lots of room to fiddle about on the motherboard with the drive bays out of the way - one of my greatest annoyances on my current case is trying to take off or insert a RAM stick without the backs of my optical drives and their cables getting in my way.
Any commercially available cases that have this? Which can you reccomend?
 
Not seen the exact same thing in a standard non Dell pc.
But there are many cases out there that will allow plenty of room for getting to a ram stick, for example.

Take a look at the Lian Li V series cases, these have the harddrives in a seperate compartment, so they won't get in the way, the longer versions will have even more space.
The Akasa Eclipse is a very deep cases too with plenty of access to the motherboard.

Should start you off :)
 
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