SPCR

This feels a little hurried, and I don't have any nifty power readings for it. But my power supply and the 945gc chipset isn't really going to knock out any people's eyeballs with low power consumption.

There has been some hype with this case, and I have to say I'm pretty happy with it. Other that I'm an idiot and thought I bought a ITX motherboard, and didn't.

Fixing that involved a thin piece of wood, some motherboard mounting pegs, some glue, and a drill, and rotating the motherboard platform 180 degrees. And cutting the IO panel a bit.

Initially wanted to roll free-NAS, but in the end chose W2K8 Server.

So, some things I like about it are that:

• Nice sized.
  Six Drive bays, and a seventh 2.5" drive bay below the CD tray. Not to mention what you can squeeze in the 5.25" bay [potentially 4 2.5" drives]
  It's pretty quiet. You will hear drive noise over the case fans, especially in an aluminum case
  Fantastic Construction, feels sturdy even with the weight of six 3.5" drives
  Love the power and reset buttons

• Con's
  Easy to lose black, nonstandard [flat top] screws
  Six phillip's screws to remove to get either side off. It's certainly set it and forget it.
  Power supply is directly over motherboard. Not much you can do about it.
  Cable management is tight. The space between the side panel and your power/sata cables is tight, 90 degree connectors recommended.

A ton of stuff to fit in a fiarly small case.

• Lian-Li PC-Q08
  Supermicro X7SLA-H
  2x 1GB Crucial DDR2
  2x 120GB 2.5mm laptop drives [RAID1]
  3x 1TB Western Digital EADS
  1x 1TB Western Digital RE2GP
  2x 1TB Western Digital FAEX [because I have no other home for them right now]
  Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8'
  Corsair 400VX

But I jammed it in there anyways. And it was kinda ugly. and I hate the lit-up 140mm fan.... need to figure out how to kill the fan's LED's.

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idle drive temps

Thanks for sharing your NAS with us
Nice temps for the HDD's as well, my samsung is suspended in front of a 500RPM Nexus, and gets to 30 degrees

Cable management looks bad but the case looks really hard to build tidy in. I really like small file-servers though and the case is really pretty on the outside.