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Greg Conquest
I would appreciate some help here. I like the Shuttle and Pandora
small form factor systems:
http://www20.tomshardware.com/howto/20040107/index.html
(review of SFF barebones systems)
http://www.soldam.com/barebone/pandora_claire/index.html
(Soldam's page on Pandora's -- Japan-made Shuttle Box clones)
The cases are light and attractive, BUT
these barebones kits are a little too small for me, and the 200 W
power supplies are also insufficient.
What I want is a nice-looking, mini-tower (?) aluminum case
(especially made for micro-ATX boards) that will allow me to have:
two hard drives (essential for me)
and two optical drives (one DVDR and one very good CDR/DVD (for DAE
and multi-region flashing ability))
As I said, the SFF cases can't handle what I want, but just barely.
The adjacent drives would be too hot and over power the power supply.
Are there cases designed for my demands? 3 or 4 external 5.25 inch
drive bays, 1 or 2 external 3.5 inch drive bays, and 2 internal 3.5
inch drive bays?
I *guess* I am going to need to build a system around a micro-ATX
motherboard:
http://hardwarecentral.dealtime.com/xPP-Motherboards--micro_atx
It is the cases that I can't find.
Thank you.
Greg Conquest
PS Just to make this more difficult, since I am living in Japan, I
have to be able to find these cases here in Japan (popular cases) --
or possibly get one via mail order (sounds pricey).
------ Greg Conquest ------
http://gregconquest.com
small form factor systems:
http://www20.tomshardware.com/howto/20040107/index.html
(review of SFF barebones systems)
http://www.soldam.com/barebone/pandora_claire/index.html
(Soldam's page on Pandora's -- Japan-made Shuttle Box clones)
The cases are light and attractive, BUT
these barebones kits are a little too small for me, and the 200 W
power supplies are also insufficient.
What I want is a nice-looking, mini-tower (?) aluminum case
(especially made for micro-ATX boards) that will allow me to have:
two hard drives (essential for me)
and two optical drives (one DVDR and one very good CDR/DVD (for DAE
and multi-region flashing ability))
As I said, the SFF cases can't handle what I want, but just barely.
The adjacent drives would be too hot and over power the power supply.
Are there cases designed for my demands? 3 or 4 external 5.25 inch
drive bays, 1 or 2 external 3.5 inch drive bays, and 2 internal 3.5
inch drive bays?
I *guess* I am going to need to build a system around a micro-ATX
motherboard:
http://hardwarecentral.dealtime.com/xPP-Motherboards--micro_atx
It is the cases that I can't find.
Thank you.
Greg Conquest
PS Just to make this more difficult, since I am living in Japan, I
have to be able to find these cases here in Japan (popular cases) --
or possibly get one via mail order (sounds pricey).
------ Greg Conquest ------
http://gregconquest.com