PC in 5.25" bay?

[kelvinhall05]

I want to know if it's possible to fit a computer with at least a 2c/4t Pentium (or AMD equivalent), at least 4gb of RAM, and at least 32gb of storage into a 5.25" drive bay. Would this work? I don't really have a budget, so just suggest stuff, as this is just out of curiosity, and I (probably) won't be doing this.

[Justin2Justin14]

hell no unless custom modding the smallest is like mini itx somthing like the node 202

[terrytek]

2 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

I want to know if it's possible to fit a computer with at least a 2c/4t Pentium (or AMD equivalent), at least 4gb of RAM, and at least 32gb of storage into a 5.25" drive bay. Would this work? I don't really have a budget, so just suggest stuff, as this is just out of curiosity, and I (probably) won't be doing this.

maybe you can take a NUC, take it apart, and fit it in a 5.25 drawer. though that might be a tad unsafe.

[EunSoo]

You might be able to fit a Mini STX system into it

 

http://www.asrock.com/nettop/intel/deskmini 110 Series/

[Cylon Muffins]

For some reason I really love the idea of this... Imagine a full tower case where the whole front of the case is populated with a dozen hot swappable  5.25" servers ?

[Some random guy 23424234]

A raspberry pi and download some ram

[SCHISCHKA]

pico-ITX? You might be able to do it with a laptop board.

[manikyath]

off the shelf, your best bet would be something like a raspberry pi, if you're okay with experimenting and voiding the devil out of your warranty on something like an intel nuc, gigabyte brix, or whatever the hell else small formfactor they make, with some creativity you could probably pack some decent performance in one bay.

[TheRandomness]

STX would be possible, but it will be very expensive and will require a 19V brick. 

[Guest]

8 hours ago, Cylon Muffins said:

For some reason I really love the idea of this... Imagine a full tower case where the whole front of the case is populated with a dozen hot swappable  5.25" servers ?

Welcome to the concept of a blade server

 

[kelvinhall05]

11 hours ago, Kevinhkn said:

A raspberry pi and download some ram

 

Download RAM?

[kelvinhall05]

11 hours ago, manikyath said:

off the shelf, your best bet would be something like a raspberry pi, if you're okay with experimenting and voiding the devil out of your warranty on something like an intel nuc, gigabyte brix, or whatever the hell else small formfactor they make, with some creativity you could probably pack some decent performance in one bay.

 

Could I record my main rig with something like a RPi?

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Could I record my main rig with something like a RPi?

as in a screen recording? oh boy hell no

[kelvinhall05]

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

as in a screen recording? oh boy hell no

What could I use to screen record then?

[manikyath]

2 hours ago, Windspeed36 said:

Welcome to the concept of a blade server

 

at some point i was considering DIY'ing my own blade center with those asrock boards that have a cpu soldered to them, but that would still be bigger than a 5.25" bay, and when looking into the cost, gotta count in you have to essentially engineer your own backplane as well

[manikyath]

2 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

What could I use to screen record then?

some intel nuc/gigabyte brix/whatever other brand of tiny pc, at least i3, preferably i5.

[Some random guy 23424234]

33 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Download RAM?

it s a meme