Mini itx case - Fractal design

It does look really good, and I really want to get one to make a NAS box, but the only downside is that it is ~£150.
 
Yeah would be nice too make a neat little download box perhaps if its powerful enough add xbmc onto it and you praticly got the best media center going with 6x sata support :)
 
I really like the look of this one, I use a Fractal Design R2 at the moment, and I love it, when I did a new system build at the end of last year (with the 1156/P55 platform release) I said to myself that I wasn't going to buy another full size ATX case for a desktop computer and I was going to move to a SFF setup, that didn't happen in the end as the motherboards weren't really available at the time and there seemed to be too many trade-offs in the end ...so I carried on with a traditional ATX tower, now it seems by the end of this year I might actually be able to do what I wanted to last year ...the bits are starting to appear, a choice of 'nice' cases, decent psu's ...cases that can take full length graphics cards and some actual choice in motherboards, beyond the old Zotac.

The industry is finally starting to take the SFF scene seriously.
 
We are stocking these.

Shame the case cannot fit an optical drive and the PSU doesn't have PCI-E connector though.
 
Doesn't the new Lian Li case fit 6 3.5" hard drives though...so you can have ATX PSU and full sized graphics card.

If only it looked as pretty.
 
What other case?

Also, someone explain something to me, what exactly would I need to do in order to take advantage of 6 3.5 drives plus an ssd?
What mini-itx motherboard is going to cope with that?
A pci-e raid card? Do those run swiftly? At what cost?

I had though of this case as a WHS sort of thing i could ad to as i went along, maybe throw in an mini-itx i3 mobo, use onboard gfx and plod along, then I suddenly realsie most mini-itx boards have at most 3 sata ports, not 7......
 
Ace Modder said:
We are stocking these.

Shame the case cannot fit an optical drive and the PSU doesn't have PCI-E connector though.
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■Space available for expansion card: circa 140mm length
■Fits Mini ITX motherboards
■One expansion slot

Just wondering, 140mm length? All gfx cards are longer than that now aren't they? So you couldn't think of a passive 5770 or similar to fit in there could you? On board GFX or nout?
 
I suppose a case such as this is designed with a purpose, that being a home server / NAS, in which case most poeple will be happy with onboard graphics. As most if not all mini-itx boards have onboard graphics, the port would be better used by a SATA / RAID card for more SATA ports i'd think.
 
I don't know enough about SATA / RAID cards, maybe someone else could give us an idea, I suppose it'd be like anything you get what you pay for i'd guess prices vary.
 
Can anyone help me find a case like this but cheaper? Specifically the smallest/cheapest case possible that can hold 6 hard drives.
 
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