I'm guessing you're looking at NewEgg's site, which is wrong :) Take a look here: http://www.norcotek.com/item_detail.php?categoryid=1&modelno=RPC-450
---- Julian On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Anthony Q. Martin <[email protected]>wrote: > I must be missing something...it only has 3 drive bays... > > > On 7/27/2011 12:14 PM, Joshua MacCraw wrote: > >> Nice! I like that case and it's a great price for that many bays. >> On Jul 27, 2011 8:52 AM, "Julian >> Zottl"<jzottl@radiantnetworks.**net<[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. >>> ---- >>> 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. >>>> >>>>
