Small cases?

[DebatED Nothing]

I'm thinking about making a Mini ITX build and need some case recommendations. I was thinking of using the Node 202 but I'm not sure I can get by with only 2.5 inch drives just yet...

Any recommendations for Mini ITX and very small cases that have at least 1 3.5 inch drive bay? 

[Quaker]

I use a Corsair 250D, but I wouldn't call it "very small".

Rather than try to find a case that takes your 3.5 inch hard drive, why not consider replacing the HDD with an SSD, or a 2.5" laptop HDD.

Check the properties on your 2TB drive and see how much space you are actually using. I did that and ended up replacing my HDD with a 500Gig SSD.

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26 minutes ago, Quaker said:

I use a Corsair 250D, but I wouldn't call it "very small".

Rather than try to find a case that takes your 3.5 inch hard drive, why not consider replacing the HDD with an SSD, or a 2.5" laptop HDD.

Check the properties on your 2TB drive and see how much space you are actually using. I did that and ended up replacing my HDD with a 500Gig SSD.

I've just looked and actually 500GB SSDs are a lot cheaper than I thought now...If I get an external drive then 2*500 or a 250 and a 500 could probably be manageable...

[Quaker]

Even though my 250D has room for 2 x 2.5" and 2 x 3.5" drives, I ended up using an 120 Gig M.2 boot drive (on the back of the motherboard) and a single 2.5" 500Gig SSD.