Nice! I like that case and it's a great price for that many bays.
On Jul 27, 2011 8:52 AM, "Julian Zottl" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Here's my order from 12/08:
> P5QL P43 775 ATX Motherboard $99.99
> (Open Box) Intel® Boxed Core 2 Quad Processor Q6600 $143.96
> RPC-450 4U Black Rackmount Case $99.99
> Radeon X1550 512MB HyperMemory PCIe Low Profile Graphics Card $29.99
>
> I threw 16GB of RAM in it, filled it with 500GB 7200rpm SATA drives, a
3Ware
> 9500S-8, and run all of my transcoding, encoding, VM's off of it. I know
> the parts can be had for much cheaper now too.
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> Julian
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Joshua MacCraw <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
>> At $300+ for that? Lol, external multi-bay cases are way overpriced vs
>> standard pc cases that have more bays! Top it off it's not even native
raid
>> but rather 2x port multipliers to a raid card in a PC.
>>
>> My thermaltake case for my workstation is 12 bays 5.25" and was cheaper
>> than
>> this external with the advantage that host pc also fits in. Add 4 of the
>> 3->
>> 5 drive bay adapters it could hold 20 drives if you wanted but that gets
>> expensive fast @ $100/ea.
>>
