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| Thread ID: 136840 | 2014-04-20 17:29:00 | Looking for a new case - bewildering | Digby (677) | Press F1 |
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| 1373184 | 2014-05-06 00:06:00 | What is the term for the case having the hard drives mounted sideways ? So that when you open the case side you can access the cables easily? and slide out a drive ? |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1373185 | 2014-05-06 02:50:00 | I would recommend one of these for the requirements that you've given. www.computerlounge.co.nz www.computerlounge.co.nz In fact I have that R4 on my desk at the moment - very nice case. Quiet, USB ports easily accessible, plenty of cable management. I could take some pics if you like |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 1373186 | 2014-05-06 03:52:00 | I don't think there's a term for it, you just have to look up a case and see what features it has. Side facing drive cages are very common in mid tower and larger cases now as is tool free drive installation. Some have the cables and the mounts on the same side, some are opposite, and some are reversible and it may not be obvious. What this means is they may mount from one side and cable from the other, or do both on the same side, or do either. My Bitfenix Prodigy (an itx case) for example defaults to installing from the left and cabling from the right (although you can mount the drive backwards and cable from the left) but the whole drive cage can be removed and turned around, which I've done, so that it all happens on the right. In my case (heh) I did it so that I can leave the cage installed and still use a full size graphics card, otherwise they conflict. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1373187 | 2014-05-06 21:02:00 | I would recommend one of these for the requirements that you've given. www.computerlounge.co.nz www.computerlounge.co.nz In fact I have that R4 on my desk at the moment - very nice case. Quiet, USB ports easily accessible, plenty of cable management. I could take some pics if you like That R4 looks very nice and is in my budget. My only question is that as one of my prime needs is to be able to get down on my hands and knees and insert and remove hard drives by taking the side cover off. Can you confirm that if I mount the hard drives in sideways that the cable connectors are at the open side of the case (I have seen some cases where the connectors are on the motherboard side which would be a real pain for me. That is why I thought case handles would be good so that I could lift it up easily to put it on a work bench. As I tend to do swap hard drives every 2 months. A pic of your R4 case inside would be great, just with the case side off so I can see your hard drive area. Thanks |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1373188 | 2014-05-06 21:23:00 | This case, you can put hdd's in the side. I replaced the other PC's case with this one (www.dtconline.co.nz) Info about it is here (www.silverstonetek.com) You can put 5 fans in it. It only comes with one. Only thing is the mobo doesnt support USB3. So the shop above had to send an adapter, so I could connect the front to the USB 2 ports |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1373189 | 2014-05-07 01:36:00 | 5707 That R4 looks very nice and is in my budget. Can you confirm that if I mount the hard drives in sideways that the cable connectors are at the open side of the case I believe they will work either way, but the case I had here had the cables on the easily accessible side. Isn't my R4 sorry, and it's gone now, but I can guarantee the drive cages will do what you want. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 1373190 | 2014-05-07 02:50:00 | You cant assume any case is designed by someone who gives a crap, unfortunately. My expensive Case has the sideways/vertical mounted drives. The end of the drive sits far to high so the side panel would push against the SATA power connector. Not good. I had to mod it a bit to make it usable Previous Thermaltake case, to remove the PSU was a major, had to remove the CPU heatsink 1st.:groan: These are bigish tower cases with heaps of room so cant understand how they can get basic things so wrong. |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1373191 | 2014-05-07 04:11:00 | You cant assume any case is designed by someone who gives a crap, unfortunately. My expensive Case has the sideways/vertical mounted drives. The end of the drive sits far to high so the side panel would push against the SATA power connector. Not good. I had to mod it a bit to make it usable Previous Thermaltake case, to remove the PSU was a major, had to remove the CPU heatsink 1st.:groan: These are bigish tower cases with heaps of room so cant understand how they can get basic things so wrong. Yes you would think that after 30 years of making computer cases that the manufacturers would have all the bases covered and that cases would not have glaring shortcomings. Just about every review I read or see on Youtube has one or two things that put me off the case. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1373192 | 2014-05-07 04:58:00 | What specifically? | wratterus (105) | ||
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