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stevecs · 07-08-2006, 07:10 PM

Yeah, saw that case but it only has room for 24 drives, no dvd or internal space for a boot drive. It's more like the old fashioned deskside servers, I was looking more for a current type 4/5/6U (rackmount) type system (ie, high density).

The end goal is to replace my current file server set up which is a shuttle XPC which has 4 promise TX8 towers attached to it (scsi) which gives me about 7.5TB. I'm nearly running out of space and the noise of all those fans is a PITA. Was hoping to get something to give me close to 20TB (16TB min as I never go less than 2x current size when I re-build). That would need about 32 750GB drives (-2 for raid5/hot spare). Plus need to have a boot drive and dvd writer (card reader would be good as well but not really important).

Granted, I am probably out of the normal 'nitch' here for WC/noiseless systems which is why I am looking for any good suggestions.

07-08-2006, 07:10 PM	#3
stevecs Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: US Posts: 9	Re: Fileserver cases that are good for watercooling? Yeah, saw that case but it only has room for 24 drives, no dvd or internal space for a boot drive. It's more like the old fashioned deskside servers, I was looking more for a current type 4/5/6U (rackmount) type system (ie, high density). The end goal is to replace my current file server set up which is a shuttle XPC which has 4 promise TX8 towers attached to it (scsi) which gives me about 7.5TB. I'm nearly running out of space and the noise of all those fans is a PITA. Was hoping to get something to give me close to 20TB (16TB min as I never go less than 2x current size when I re-build). That would need about 32 750GB drives (-2 for raid5/hot spare). Plus need to have a boot drive and dvd writer (card reader would be good as well but not really important). Granted, I am probably out of the normal 'nitch' here for WC/noiseless systems which is why I am looking for any good suggestions.