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Flying Fox wrote:Is there Mini-ITX that can house 4 hard drives? I am not sure.
ekul wrote:I have been looking for much the same thing for a home server. I did find the Chenbro ES34069 which is a 4 drive mini ITX case designed for NAS. It can be found at http://usa.chenbro.com/corporatesite/products_detail.php?serno=100. I found it a little pricey but maybe it will help.
Krogoth wrote:Care to enlightenment me?
Bensam123 wrote:Yeah, I was looking at that exact mATX case at one point, but once you start going to mATX cases it defeats the purpose of using a mini-itx board. The same goes with the Chenbro case which is also a mATX case. My demands basically comes down to a toaster size brick of hard drives with a motherboard attached. Micro-atx enclosures are still too big to warrant me changing from my giant case as a micro-atx case is still reminiscent of a mid-atx case.
grantmeaname wrote:Flying Fox wrote:Is there Mini-ITX that can house 4 hard drives? I am not sure.ekul wrote:I have been looking for much the same thing for a home server. I did find the Chenbro ES34069 which is a 4 drive mini ITX case designed for NAS. It can be found at http://usa.chenbro.com/corporatesite/products_detail.php?serno=100. I found it a little pricey but maybe it will help.
Bensam123 wrote:The same goes with the Chenbro case which is also a mATX case.
Flying Fox wrote:grantmeaname wrote:Flying Fox wrote:Is there Mini-ITX that can house 4 hard drives? I am not sure.ekul wrote:I have been looking for much the same thing for a home server. I did find the Chenbro ES34069 which is a 4 drive mini ITX case designed for NAS. It can be found at http://usa.chenbro.com/corporatesite/products_detail.php?serno=100. I found it a little pricey but maybe it will help.
I was just going by the following. Looks like the OP was wrong. The linked specs clearly said mini-ITX.Bensam123 wrote:The same goes with the Chenbro case which is also a mATX case.
Bensam123 wrote:Then I went online and realized legos has a monopoly on the building block market and you can't just order a pail. Even shopping eBay you aren't going to find much there. They want to sell you their 'sets' with custom pieces and only a handful of actual building blocks.
Bensam123 wrote:That's the aforementioned Chenbro with the external PSU.
Bensam123 wrote:The case is a lot of different kinds of unpolished rubish (sharp corners, no thumb screws, weird fan setup that sucks), but for the most part it fits what I wanted.