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My dad is putting some parts together for a home server. I need to find him a really cheap case that has at least 8 bays for HDD's. Size is no problem for us just not full atx. 

 

Does anyone have expedience with a good cheap case? 

 

I need it to be under $30 as well (I know it's low but my dad wont go any higher). Thanks.

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Make one!

 

Or go look on Newegg.

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The NZXT Source 210 is a little more than that, but it is pretty cheap and has 8 3.5" bays. As far as i could tell it was the cheapest one on pcpartpicker.com that had 8 drive bays, although their are cheaper ones that have 6.

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The NZXT Source 210 is a little more than that, but it is pretty cheap and has 8 3.5" bays. As far as i could tell it was the cheapest on pcpartpicker.com that had 8 drive bays, although their are cheaper ones that have 6.

8 is good or else my dad starts putting hard drives on the cpu heatsink and on the DVD drive

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does your case or do you have an old case that you can take drive bays out of and mount it to like a piece of wood>

Hope I could help!

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does your case or do you have an old case that you can take drive bays out of and mount it to like a piece of wood>

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Like old hard drive bays that you can mount and make your own case

Hope I could help!

Specs: CPU: AMD FX-8320 @4.0ghz GPU: ASUS DCUII GTX 770 PSU: EVGA Supernova 750g CASE: Fractal Define R4 RAM: 8 Gigabytes ADATA 1333 Mhz MOBO: GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3

 

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Like old hard drive bays that you can mount and make your own case

His profile says "Some HP crap" under case so I'm guessing no, but who knows, OP may say differently.

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Source 210 (Elite), 220

Wait for one to go on sale.

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Antec ISK 110 VESA-UK

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Antec ISK 110 VESA-UK

Just what...

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any case with many hdd slots and much motherboard space

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any case with many hdd slots and much motherboard space

That's what the OP is asking for...

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Check out the Fractal Design Array R2. Yes, it costs a bit, but iit has a PSU in it already and can fit 6 drives + an SSD!

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Lain Li have some nice cases for that

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His profile says "Some HP crap" under case so I'm guessing no, but who knows, OP may say differently.

We have a butt-load of cases at home with old HDD bays...

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That's what the OP is asking for...

Saying that, Cosmos 2, Antec 1200, 900D and any Caselabs with a hand full of HDD Cages will do

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We have a butt-load of cases at home with old HDD bays...

Oh, nice, that helps with your problem then. As long as they can be removed easily.

CPU: Intel i5 3570k @ 4.5 Ghz Cooler: Hyper 212+ GPU: MSI Twin Frozr 3 7850 Case: HAF 912 RAM: 2x4GB Corsair Vengeance PSU: OCZ Modxstream 600W Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-LK HDD: 1TB Seagate Barracuda

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