does anybody make a good case anymore?

[y7deluxe]

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[Shiranai_Baka]

You can check out all the Lian-Li cases on newegg and see which one you like? They all have unique designs and the exterior look is plain looking.

[TooFastForYa]

Antec 900 or P182

[y7deluxe]

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[suprafreak6]

its smart that the psu is at the bottom,
fact:Hot air rises.

[y7deluxe]

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[WHRST]

i need a good case for my pc since my looks like crap

j/k but i would like a new case

[clocker]

CM Stacker TC-01.

Why do you need so many drive bays?

[Elvenmunky]

Antec 900 case, just bought it today...looks mean!

[y7deluxe]

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[brotherdoobie]

There's redundancy and...there's anal retention.


-bd :lol:

[clocker]

I need that many drive bays to put my hard drives in :) ...mmm redundancy...
Old school PC design purist, eh?

[iKill]

http://www.xoxide.com/thermaltake-armor-lcs-ve2000bws.html
best case you can buy

[clocker]

http://www.xoxide.com/thermaltake-armor-lcs-ve2000bws.html
best case you can buy
I beg to differ.

I'm sure you meant to say..."This was the best case I could buy on Sunday when the only store open was CompUSA".

[Shiranai_Baka]

http://www.xoxide.com/thermaltake-armor-lcs-ve2000bws.html
best case you can buy
I beg to differ.

I'm sure you meant to say..."This was the best case I could buy on Sunday when the only store open was CompUSA".

Don't you have something against thermaltake clocker? ;)

[clocker]

Well. if by "something against Thermaltake" you mean "Thermaltake makes junk" then yes, I suppose I do.
Most TT products are overly gaudy and filled with useless and for the most part, non-functional gee-gaws, and they blatantly rip off the design cues of their betters.

Other than that, they're fine.

[y7deluxe]

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[y7deluxe]

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[lynx]

Strange, I seem to recollect someone saying "Thermaltake makes junk", it's a pity you didn't take that advice.

You can get the Codegen case here:
http://www.avadirect.com/product_details_parts.asp?PRID=6143

[clocker]

Well. if by "something against Thermaltake" you mean "Thermaltake makes junk" then yes, I suppose I do.
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Well I went with the Thermaltake Armor case (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811133163)...


UPDATE: The Thermaltake Armor case is a piece of shit..


Strange, I seem to recollect someone saying "Thermaltake makes junk"
:whistling
Juxtaposition can be sooo eloquent sometimes.

[y7deluxe]

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[clocker]

I'm still wondering why you need to run so many drives.
Given current availability of large drives it seems inelegant to run multiple small drives anymore...hell, you can get 500GB units for just over $100 from Newegg.

Seems like you're warping the design of the whole system to accommodate just the drives.

[y7deluxe]

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[lynx]

I'd strongly recommend you get a trap, there's definitely a rat's nest in there.

[clocker]

500GB just isn't enough
So how much IS "enough"?

As you can see...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v78/clocker/Raptor4.jpg
...the Stacker I previously recommended can accommodate multiple drives with superior airflow for a reasonable price and no availability issues.

[y7deluxe]

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[clocker]

The PSU is located at the bottom of those cases.
Wrong.
The original Stacker (STC-T01) allows for either floor OR roof mounting of the PSU.
It's the later (and IMO, inferior) variants that have floor mount only.

[y7deluxe]

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[clocker]

I'll be interested to see what you finally come up with then.

I can't imagine 11 bays "not cutting it".

[y7deluxe]

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[lynx]

I'm not even going to ask why anyone would want to make 4 raid 5 arrays out of 12 drives, it seems such a waste of disk capacity.

[y7deluxe]

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[LaPistola]

http://www.avadirect.com/product_details_parts.asp?PRID=6143

[lynx]

But the bit I don't understand is why have 4 arrays of 3 disks each, giving the equivalent capacity of 8 disks.

To achieve the same capacity you could have 2 arrays of 5 disks, saving 2 disks, or even a single array of 9 disks, saving 3 disks.

If you insisted on using all 12 disks you could have 3 arrays of 4 disks giving the equivalent of 9 disks, 2 arrays of 5 disks giving 10 disks capacity, or even a single array of 12 disks giving 11 disks capacity.

To be fair, I wouldn't go for a single array though.


A word of warning.
At least one of the 12-port raid controllers starts to lose performance after about 8 drives are active. If that's the case then the extra ports are really only suitable for attaching "hot spare" drives - drives which are available for automatic switch-over in the case of failure.


http://www.avadirect.com/product_details_parts.asp?PRID=6143
Did anyone hear an echo?

[y7deluxe]

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[lynx]

That's the first time you've actually said which controller you've got. The comments I'd seen were about one of the areca cards. I thought I'd give you the warning in case that was what you bought. I've no personal experience with them.

Since you've got 3ware the following is not relevant, but if you think about it, the environment could not be a factor since the individual drives are handled by the controller not the OS. The OS (except for special diagnostic progs) never sees the raw drives so can't possibly affect their performance.

[y7deluxe]

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[Virtualbody1234]

Purchasing the 9650SE-12ML would be a waste of money if you were creating only raid 5 arrays and had only 11 slots. 11 slots would give me the ability to make 3 raid 5 arrays with 2 slots to spare. 1 for my OS HD and the other for a dvd burner. The thermaltake case that I purchased ended up working with the plastic washers... it just isn't sitting level. It has 11 front 5.25" drive bays with another 3 in the back. So I can have my 4 raid 5 arrays and my OS HD with the dvd burner. 14 slots ended up being the perfect number. 4 120mm fans and 2 90mm fans. 1 120mm fan per three HD's up in the front and 2 90mm fans for the array in the back. Sorry to disappoint. The thermaltake is still a shitty case, but it's the better option for me over the stacker and it's getting me by until the case I'm after becomes available.


Either way, the case is finally setup and working properly, even though it's on a slant. I never expected that to be an issue, but that is how things always turn out. Thanks for all the input guys. Till next time.

You talking to yourself now? :blink::wacko:

[y7deluxe]

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[lynx]

I understood your meaning.

I had previously looked at the raid controllers and seen the warning, but I hadn't realised from your post that the 9650SE-12ML was one of the raid controllers, I assumed (wrongly) that it was another case.