I'm ? with the trend toward fewer drive mounts in cases. How will I ever fit all my drives in my next case?

[r3loAded]

3 minutes ago, bughtoo said:

http://www.lian-li.com/en/dt_portfolio/pc-d8000/ here you go a case for 20 HDD 

 

 

That looks like a case that can take in 20 HDDs. Now I've seen one  .

 

Looks like a NAS but....it's a case. Thank you for reply.

[CatXice]

14 minutes ago, bughtoo said:

Yeah they exist already, around 350-400$ for one

8tb at about 250

[bughtoo]

3 minutes ago, CatXice said:

8tb at about 250

Ik its just he was asking if 10TB hdd are a thing

[bughtoo]

10 minutes ago, r3loAded said:

That looks like a case that can take in 20 HDDs. Now I've seen one  .

 

Looks like a NAS but....it's a case. Thank you for reply.

Np i just dont wanna know how much it costs. And from what i see 14kg for such a big case is not much, its not like my CM HAF942X with f-ing 20kg without anything in it  30kg with all the parts and watercooling  

[Evolution90]

I was bummed my NZXT s340 had ZERO slot's for a Bluray / DVD drive.. ended up buying a USB 3.0 DVD external.

[bughtoo]

2 minutes ago, Evolution90 said:

I was bummed my NZXT s340 had ZERO slot's for a Bluray / DVD drive.. ended up buying a USB 3.0 DVD external.

DVDs in 2017?  Just kidding, but without the bay it looks muuuch better  

[Evolution90]

Just now, bughtoo said:

DVDs in 2017?  Just kidding, but without the bay it looks muuuch better  

[TVwazhere]

2 hours ago, PianoPlayer88Key said:

Thats a lot of porn files!

[bughtoo]

13 minutes ago, Evolution90 said:

Like the blue theme, here is my red and black  (mine 2 months ago, now its a little changed)

[STRMfrmXMN]

3 hours ago, bughtoo said:

Yeah they exist already, around 350-400$ for one

That would save you a hell of a lot of space and convenience, my friend. You can even keep old drives that have specific use-case scenarios.

[Stefan Payne]

7 hours ago, CaptainKieseI said:

Duuuuude its 2017

get dem solid states

There are 4TB Solid State drives for <150 bucks??

[Stefan Payne]

 

TL;DR: Any chance in the next 3-5 years of standard ATX tower cases (without flashy designs, but more like Fractal Design style) being available to house lots of 3.5" drives, WITHOUT needing a server / rackmount case?  Many modern cases are trending toward too few drive bays for my use case.  

There are a couple of possible options on the market right now.

THe best choice for you might be the Nanoxia Deep Silence 5(B) and 6.

Also Cooler Master Storm Trooper is an option.

 

Though you need at least one 3x5,25" to 4x 3,5" hot swap cases...

The advantage of the Cooler Master Case  is that it has only 5,25" mountings, the 3,5" mountings are done by an adaptor.

The disadvantage is the "holey" design with all that mesh next to no noise is absorbed...

 

I can say something about that because I own both cases mentioned here...

And they are still available...

[Phate.exe]

Time to build a server!

 

My old machine had a small SSD along with 3 3.5in drives (2 x 500GB's and 1 x 3TB).  Even just with those, you're dealing with a lot of cables.  It worked server duty for like 2 years, and held pretty much all my media for a while before that.

 

My new machine has a 512 m.2 nvme SSD, and a 512 m.2 sata SSD, which should be pretty good as far as necessary local storage.

 

My server currently has 2 2TB Ultrastars, and once I get the new drive cages 3d printed will have 4 of them in raid 5 (for 6TB of total storage).  I was originally planning to run a 10 gigabit link between my new machine and my server, but wasn't able to fit/use the NIC so I'm choked to only the gigabit link.

 

Build a cheap server with all of your drives, and whatever raid implementation you feel like.  I can guarantee you don't need high speed access to every single file on every one of those drives, so just access it over the network when you need it, or copy it to a working drive on your main machine when you want to work on it.  If you get a 10 gigabit link set up, you'll be able to access the data at speeds faster than SATA is capable of.

[MorganO]

9 hours ago, Sauron said:

You could replace them with 2 10tb drives.

*10

[Sauron]

55 minutes ago, KOMTechAndGaming said:

*10

I missed the 4TB driver, regardless there clearly aren't 100TB worth of drives there... the point being, instead of using 17 hard drives you could replace them with higher capacity ones. Or have one or more dedicated storage servers.

[Stefan Payne]

6 hours ago, Sauron said:

I missed the 4TB driver, regardless there clearly aren't 100TB worth of drives there... the point being, instead of using 17 hard drives you could replace them with higher capacity ones. Or have one or more dedicated storage servers.

3 8TB, a couple of 4 and 5 TB. 

He has replaced a couple of them with higher capacity ones. Though not all...

 

There are some that he can replace (2x 1,5TB and 1 TB, 2x 2TB) instead of 5 HDDs, it's just 1 or two. And another one for the smaller ones.

However, that costs about 200 Bucks for the drives. So it might be understandable why he doesn't want to...

 

Though I'd replace the fist 4 in the first line as soon as possible...

[Sauron]

8 hours ago, Stefan Payne said:

3 8TB, a couple of 4 and 5 TB. 

He has replaced a couple of them with higher capacity ones. Though not all...

 

There are some that he can replace (2x 1,5TB and 1 TB, 2x 2TB) instead of 5 HDDs, it's just 1 or two. And another one for the smaller ones.

However, that costs about 200 Bucks for the drives. So it might be understandable why he doesn't want to...

 

Though I'd replace the fist 4 in the first line as soon as possible...

Hard drive lifespans are limited anyway, after 3-4 years you should be looking at replacing them anyway if they hold important data.

[SpaceGhostC2C]

I feel your pain, OP. Your options are going to be:

- EATX or otherwise "full tower" cases (at least some)

- eBay, for all the old-school goodness being sold by enthusiast of the minimalist, fewer-bays-more-RGB trend

Depending on what you look for, newer isn't always better...

[Tech22]

Case labs THW10 with every drive bay replaced with a hotswap drive cage. Use a bunch of these in your motherboard pci slots. One of those will have enough ports for one hotswap cage.