looking for a 6-bay mini tower case

hatbrox · Post by **hatbrox** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 5:49 pm

Hi there,

I've been looking for a 4 months for a case that can fit my cabinet.
I'm looking for a case that has 6 5.1/4" bays and can take mini ITX board, not ATX.
my cabinet has room for a case of (H/D/L) of 35x42x36cm or 13x16.5x14 inches.

It seems that no manufacturers even bother to build a 6-bay case.

I found a few 9-bay chassis like the Lian Li's PC-A17B, which I like a lot but it's too big.

I just want 2-3 bays less, but I don't want the crap that you normally see between the 5.1/4 and 3.5 bays for power button and leds.
just a clean front with 6 bays.

I need this to build a storage server with WHS. I would put 2 4-in-3 drive cages to put 8 disks.

I checked all big brands and a few others but failed to find such a case.

the dream case would be the the QNAP TS-809 Pro but the price is insane!

can anyone help?

cheers

The_Helper · Post by **The_Helper** » Sun Feb 07, 2010 5:02 am

Hi, I'm in a similar situation (looking for a tiny tower case fitting just a bunch of drives and an Atom board) for my WHS project. The closest thing I could find is a Rosewill box on Newegg.com.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6811147111
It seems to be very reasonably priced (ok for an empty box basically), unfortunately they don't ship to Australia and I haven't found a reseller here yet.
If anyone could post a place in AU where I can get such a tiny tower, I'd be very happy.

hatbrox · Post by **hatbrox** » Sun Feb 07, 2010 9:21 am

that won't work, the front panel won't let me put a HDD cage.
why didn't they put 5.25 bays all the way down!

adikt · Post by **adikt** » Sun Feb 07, 2010 4:26 pm

I've been looking for something very similar and it seems you won't find what you're after unless you start modding.

hatbrox · Post by **hatbrox** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 2:37 pm

moding?

I read of moding for gamer chassis, where you put funny blue light everywhere!

do you think I could buy a case like this one:
http://www.chieftec.com/bs-01b-b-b.html

and try to put 3x5.25 drive cage on the bottom?