Saturday, March 06

Geek

Lian-Li, Lian-Li, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?

They've stopped making the PC-V600, the best small computer case I've ever used.  All four of my desktop machines (Haruhi, Yurie, Nagi and Tanarotte) are in these cases, silver for the Windows boxes, black for Linux.

I ordered another two of them while they're still in stock, one of each colour.  If I ever end up with more than six desktop machines running, I'll have worse problems to deal with than mismatching cases...

I discovered the discontinuation while shopping around for a decent midi-tower server case, something that seems to be almost extinct.  Why the hell do manufactures manufacture cases with 7 5.25" bays and 2 3.5"?  Who actually uses 7 DVD drives at once?  I'm looking at colocating a small server at a budget colo facility, and it's cheaper and easier to build a tower box than a rack mount one, and costs no more to host.

I did find one case that suits my needs - the Fractal Design Define R2.  It has eight 3.5" drive bays behind two 120mm fans (which is far more than the V600's 3 bays, with another 3 via an optional converter that fits 3x3.5" drives into 2x5.25" bays) and room for another 5 120mm fans in various locations.  And it's available in three colours.  In case I want to run yet another operating system, I guess.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:53 PM | Comments (1) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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1 Hmm... That Lian-Li looks pretty nice! I haven't bought a PC case in a long while.

As for 7 5.25" bays? get two 4 3.5" drives in 3 5.25" bays modules... (or even more extreme, 5 3.5" drives in 3 5.25" bays modules...).

BTW, have you seen this?

Norco RPC-4020 or Norco RPC-4220, inexpensive rack mount cases with 20 hot swap drive trays.

I read about this case several years ago on an AVSForum thread on building monstrously large media file servers. Ah, here's a recent version of the guide... Some people propose building a DAS with these and several port multipliers. The latest version of the guide uses cheaper but less dense cases, the various editions of this guide are useful for ideas *grin*.

Posted by: Kayle at Saturday, March 06 2010 10:43 PM (TDlSn)

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