External Hard Drive HTPC cases

[chrysek]

Hey gang, I am so sorry to bother you but I would love to add some additional storage to my HTPC, and here is my question. Does anyone have any cool links to external cases for hard drives that can be used with HTPC? I have some small tiny cases that are black but they are plastic and I cant really do stack one on top of the other because of their shape.

Once I did see this case, it was for 4 hard drives, metal case where drives were put on the bottom of it, it was a height of a Hard Drive but drives were aligned next to each other. I cannot find link to that case, and I remember I loved that… Anyway any links or suggestions are greatly appreciated. I would love to have Hard Drive case similar to my HTPC computer in shape and color maybe…

Regards,

Chris

[stanger89]

I think ATech and Ahanix have some nice aluminum external cases.

[GbrNole]

are you looking to use a firewire connection or network it?

if networked i'd be more be more inclined to hide it some place for firewire connection maybe you could rig something up in one of the coolermaster atc-620 boxes? it will hold 5 drives if you rig it up.

[g808]

Originally Posted by chrysek

Hey gang, I am so sorry to bother you but I would love to add some additional storage to my HTPC, and here is my question. Does anyone have any cool links to external cases for hard drives that can be used with HTPC? I have some small tiny cases that are black but they are plastic and I cant really do stack one on top of the other because of their shape.

Once I did see this case, it was for 4 hard drives, metal case where drives were put on the bottom of it, it was a height of a Hard Drive but drives were aligned next to each other. I cannot find link to that case, and I remember I loved that… Anyway any links or suggestions are greatly appreciated. I would love to have Hard Drive case similar to my HTPC computer in shape and color maybe…

Regards,

Chris

This is what you may be looking for:
http://atechfabrication.com/products/mass_storage.htm

It's not cheap though ($325 + options), but if it's anything like their HTPC cases, then it's great quality.

[chrysek]

Originally Posted by GbrNole

are you looking to use a firewire connection or network it?

if networked i'd be more be more inclined to hide it some place for firewire connection maybe you could rig something up in one of the coolermaster atc-620 boxes? it will hold 5 drives if you rig it up.

Hmm, that is a very good question, I think I would love to conenct it trough maybe firewire or better yet USB but it it had e.SATA or any other direct conenction I would not mind it.

Chris

[chrysek]

Originally Posted by g808

This is what you may be looking for:
http://atechfabrication.com/products/mass_storage.htm

It's not cheap though ($325 + options), but if it's anything like their HTPC cases, then it's great quality.

This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you so so so much for that link ))))))))

[GbrNole]

holy heck nice case! sure wish i had the disposable income to drop on that!

so chrysek, going to be dropping 4 of those 400gb sata drives in there? man 1.6tb of pristine storage

[silkshadow]

This is what you may be looking for:
http://atechfabrication.com/products/mass_storage.htm

Just out of curiosity, is there an ATA based case similar to that? I've got 7 ATA HDs in my Sage server right now in an LianLi tower. But even with 2 fans blowing directly on the 4 drive array, I am getting a bit of heat. Nothing too bad but it would be nice to make some room for the two S-ata drives I have sitting in pretty uselss download box.

[stanger89]

I don't think so, SATA is much more accepting of long cable runs than PATA is.