Im thinking I might as well watercool my new nas box.... Ive got most of the stuff already, all Ill need to buy are the HD coolers...

but its going to be a bit tight in my current case... and Id like to add some more/new HDs to it some time...

so any recommendations on a nice big case with an insane amount of HD bays ?

Coolermaster stacker.

Its massive, there are 2 versions now, personally i prefer the original.

iirc it has 11 drive bays, and space for an extra PSU (or watercooling gubbins).

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=123852&source=hx1

hmmm, my little brother has that case... its quite nice

thinking about it... Id really like one where the HDs go in at 90 to the normal way... so the back of the drive is faceing you when you open the side...

I saw one like that with about 12HD bays all along the bottom of the case.... just cant find it again

rackmount nas case me thinks eith removable ide caddies?  

sure ebuyer listed some rack mount cases

well the only one I could find was Ã,£300
(16 drive bays!)

Ill have another look see when I have some more time tho

Lian Li PC-V2000?

Modular compartment design, 12x hard drive bay (with rails), space above the PSU + 7 5.25" bays (for water cooling etc).

I use the above with a dual opteron, 12 drives and water cooling

Quote from: KunalLian Li PC-V2000?

http://www.cluboverclocker.com/reviews/cases/lian_li/pcv2000/index.htm


Seems spot on

wow, thats a hell of a case

found it for Ã,£160 delivered

starting to think I might just scrap the idea of the nas, and build myself a new machine with plenty of storage in it

Sounds like a plan

My new rig is going to have about a Terabyte of sotrage in it... Doubt I will fill that for a long time

Kunal, you got any photies of that ?

Im thinking I havnt done any good building/modding in a long while, and Im getting bored of my shuttle now.

Im a buy everything all at once kind of guy, so a photo of the case with stuff inside it already would be a big help   (cant find any good ones bigger than a postage stamp!)

at the mo, Im thinking that case, new M/B, stick with my 4400X2, already got 2 gig of decent ram, maybe 6 watercooled hard drives, and a load of rads so I can have it totaly silent

watercooling the CPU, n/b and hard drives, one of those tube rads sticking out the back of it... might do something funky with the position of the PSU to make a bit more room there fot the ump etc..

maybe a USB hub and external CD drive so I can stick the computer under the desk at the back and still have easy access..... hmmmmm

knighty - how muchs torage do you have in total? maybe more cost effective and convenient to replace your current drives with bigger ones?

Ill dig some pictures out, although the ones Ive got dont have the watercooling installed.

Gimme a few hours.

Quote from: Maldonadoknighty - how muchs torage do you have in total? maybe more cost effective and convenient to replace your current drives with bigger ones?

I dont need that much storage, of all my storage only about 150 gig of stuff is mine (at most)
and I don;t really give a **** about 90% of it anyway

the rest is people using my spare space for there stuff over the network..

the drives in the NAS drive at the mo are just old left over ones I had in my cupbord

going to have a few drives in my main rid so I can raid 0+1 them
(4x80 gig drives would easily do for me)

Quote from: KunalIll dig some pictures out, although the ones Ive got dont have the watercooling installed.

Gimme a few hours.

cool

on a side note... I picked out pretty much everything I wanted.... but I cant remember if I ordered it all the other night when I was pissed or not... going to give it a few days then check my CC bill online to see