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New case time? Help me find one that fits..

UrbanFreestyle

Hi all,

So hopefully someone can help me out. I have reached a dilemma with my current build. I am using an OEM case and sadly it doesnt have enough HDD bays for the way i work and kit i have.

I have 1x 2.5 ssd and 5x 1tb HDD. I also have an R9 290X in my build.

I have been looking around and found a case i like (plain boring and non RGB with no glass.) the Nanoxia Deep Silence 4 (Linky)

But i am worried that my GPU won't fit as it seems to be quite long. Can anyone confirm if this is right or recomend another MATX case that would be able to have lots of HDD and the GPU??

the other one that seems to come closest is the Fractal R4 but that is an ATX case. Yes i know that my MATX board will fit but dont like the big gap below the mobo.

Not a fan of the cube cases.

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True, At the moment i have got two drives just hovering in my case so an external could work.

Only issue is they are all working drives (photo and video editing)

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Just had a brain wave... Should i perhaps pull two drives out of my nas (currently 4x 2tb drives) and use them inside my PC 

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Silverstone - PS07 has 5 3.5" drive cages, a 2.5" drive bay and 2 5.5" drive bay, should be just enough (or the SSD just runs without screwing it down).

 

Otherwise the Fractal 804... is more like a cube unless you have it stand face-down (front panel facing down).

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18 minutes ago, Strike105X said:

That could save the working space problem and with a dock you could just save afterwards data that its mainly meant for archiving purposes, and with time get again higher capacity drives for your NAS, i dunno the prices there but with the prices in my country with the money it takes to buy a fractal design R4 case you could get a docking station and at least a 2Tb HDD drive...

would the nas run with just the 2 drives?

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I think this is all sorted now. 

Pulled one drive out, will run that 2tb drive in the PC. NAS is re-configured to 3x 2tb drives in a raid 5 array.

 

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