Excellent Case

Originally Posted by DiscipleDOC

This is not flashy enough for me. I would love to get a Stacker....

Are you getting rid of your Cosmos?

[qube]

Originally Posted by nekrosoft13

also a nice one, if it had hot-swappable hdd bays i would buy it

http://www.lian-li.com/v2/en/product...s_index=12&g=f

[mullet]

Originally Posted by qube

http://www.lian-li.com/v2/en/product...s_index=12&g=f

+1 kickass HDD bay.

[wysiwyg]

Originally Posted by mullet

+1 kickass HDD bay.

my case has bays too=

front



back one also that clips in

[mullet]

Pretty cool mang.

[nekrosoft13]

Originally Posted by wysiwyg

my case has bays too=

front



back one also that clips in

you still don't understand the point

hot-swapping hdd bays, not open the case, un hook cables hdd bays

[LovingSticky]

Originally Posted by nekrosoft13

hdd bays, not open the case, un hook cables hdd bays

That -is- cool and fancy. However, how often you need this feature in a desktop computer? Once every two years?

Having 7 HDDs in my current "desktop" RAID setup (2xHDD for RAID-0, 4xHDD for RAID-5 and 1x for backup), and had to swap exactly 1 failed HDD within last 3 years..

[DiscipleDOC]

Originally Posted by grey_1

Are you getting rid of your Cosmos?

I've been thinking about it....

[Redeemed]

Originally Posted by DiscipleDOC

I've been thinking about it....

Silverstone Raven RV-01 FTW!

[logan]

Originally Posted by LovingSticky

That -is- cool and fancy. However, how often you need this feature in a desktop computer? Once every two years?

I have a 3*1TB RAID5 and a 4th drive for backups that I swap out every few months and it saves me alot of time.

My first configuration consisted of everything mounted in the normal drive slots, which caused alot of vibration. My second attempt was drive coolers with those little rubber insulation type feet that screwed to the side of 5.25" bays, but that took me about 30 minutes to swap hard drives (which of course happened during Seagate's awful firmware problems). I used to have a bunch of external enclosures for my backup drives, but they got pretty warm and didn't pass through SMART so I couldn't schedule daily short and weekly long self-tests. Finally I just bought a 4 bay internal hot-swap enclosure and that solved all my problems. Drives are easy to swap in and out, no more clunky external enclosures with power and data cables sprawling all over the place, and no more extended downtime. I almost never have to reboot or take my machine down for anything now. Hard drive fails? Hot swap a new one in and rebuild the array. Need to retrieve an old file from the unused backup drive? Swap it in and grab the data. Every desktop I build for myself from this point on will definitely have a hot-swap enclosure. My only regret is not buying one sooner.

One thing I don't think I'd do is specifically look for a case that has it, because I really have a hard time finding cases I like to begin with. Everything is black or a space ship/ricer case. I'll just find something I like and buy an internal enclosure like I have now.

[wysiwyg]

Originally Posted by nekrosoft13

you still don't understand the point

hot-swapping hdd bays, not open the case, un hook cables hdd bays

sorry wasnt paying total attention

[nekrosoft13]

hmm, i think i found a new case i like

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...3&sku=C13-2514

other then the price, can't see a single flaw with it