Is there a case that will hold 10 HDDs and a 5850 VC?

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I am looking for a case that will hold all of these things.

Most cases seem to hold enough Hdd's but I am worried that the VC will be too long.

Does anyone have any recommendations for me at all that might do well?
 
My Yeong Yang YY-0221 Cube case will will hold more than 10 drives and supports a full length card.
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The drives would need to be double stacked at the rear to fit 13 drives.
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MissJ84 said:
Lian Li A70F and A71F to name a few
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Here are good pics of A70/71FB's insides look.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=15810698&postcount=1

Also now rarer original A77A/B (Not A77F) takes nine HDDs directly and six free 5.25" bays should be enough for that one extra drive.
In most cases fitting 10 drives would simply eat most 5.25" bays limiting further use.


Zepher said:
The drives would need to be double stacked at the rear to fit 13 drives.
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Cramming drives tightly together isn't best thing for their temperature unless there's good airflow.
 
E.T said:
Here are good pics of A70/71FB's insides look.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=15810698&postcount=1

Also now rarer original A77A/B (Not A77F) takes nine HDDs directly and six free 5.25" bays should be enough for that one extra drive.
In most cases fitting 10 drives would simply eat most 5.25" bays limiting further use.


Cramming drives tightly together isn't best thing for their temperature unless there's good airflow.
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I have my drives spinning 24/7 and they get quite warm. If you used Green drives or powered them down if idle, heat shouldn't be too much of an issue, right?
there are 2 90mm exhaust fans at the back of the case right behind the stack of drives.

Another option would be those 5 in 3 drive cages.
 
I have a B70 and it'll take 10 in just the 3.5 inch bays 7 along the bottom 3 on top. The 7 drives share 2 140 MM fans that intake air and the 3 up top share a 120 MM fan that exhaust air. You can set the fan speed to 5/7/12 Volts to controls fan speed. You can always get a 4X3 or 5X3 to expand it even more. I set in on low have 2 1 TB Samsung F3's and 3 WD20EADS's and passively cooled Sempron 140 and my ambients are around 90 F. Still wish I could get it even more quiet but who am I kidding. It's never going to be silent. Can show you picks if you want. B71 is a little nicer as it has 7 hot swap bays but I got a great deal on my B70.
 
@ Zepher: Holy dust-that-heatsink-n-fan, Batman!

My WHS box was 2 of the 5x3 hot swap SATA bays. That may be a good option if you can find a case you like with at least 7 5.25 bays. Plus it makes the drives easily accessible.
 
that is an older pic. I cleaned it after that but it may need another cleaning again.
 
So, noob questions:

How do you use 10 hard drives when most mobo only have 6 sata ports?
 
Zepher said:
I have my drives spinning 24/7 and they get quite warm. If you used Green drives or powered them down if idle, heat shouldn't be too much of an issue, right?
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When used in RAID power saving options turning drive off after set idle time aren't probably supported.
AMCC/3ware doesn't support that (except for drives not part of array) and same for RAIDed drives in Intel ICH's controller.

But that always running might be actually saving thing when drives are run little hot because it avoids thermal stresses which could wear down drive faster if there's daily temperature cycling with high running temperature. Study done by Google using data from drives in their servers showed mortality rate starting to rise only after 45C temperature.
(but when you eventually turn of system for reason or another letting it cool some drives might fail soon)


4x4not said:
My WHS box was 2 of the 5x3 hot swap SATA bays. That may be a good option if you can find a case you like with at least 7 5.25 bays. Plus it makes the drives easily accessible.
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Those hot swap bays can be rather expensive addition to price of the case.
 
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Antec Super Lanboy
BFG 9800GTX
Adaptec 6 port SATA controller
3TB of gay porn.
 
Zepher said:
My Yeong Yang YY-0221 Cube case will will hold more than 10 drives and supports a full length card.
http://transamws6.com/pics/pc/2009/gtx285.jpg[/IMG]

The drives would need to be double stacked at the rear to fit 13 drives.
http://transamws6.com/pics/pc/2009/drives.jpg[/IMG]
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wow a yy cube! i havent seen one of those in ages

kuyaglen said:
Antec Super Lanboy
BFG 9800GTX
Adaptec 6 port SATA controller
3TB of gay porn.
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thats a lot of gay porn... additionally i think you need moar nvidia stickers to add more megahurtz
 
FLECOM said:
wow a yy cube! i havent seen one of those in ages
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I wanted one for a long time but didn't really want to spend the $250 on the case.
I sold my 86 Trans Am LT1 6 speed converted car in 03 and had a bunch of extra cash and decided to get the case and have been using it since.
 
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