On Thursday 29 May 2008 08:38:05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am looking at putting together a file server for the house. looking > for a case that would support 4 (or 6) drives, the motherboard needs to > have 4-6 sata connectors (and maybe 2 esata connectors on the outside > and a gig eth (2 would be good), I am presuming a 400-500w power supply > > The other requirement is has to be very quiet ( and no lights on the > case). > > I have been looking at fuildtek (http://fluidtek.com.au/) they have > thermaltake rs wing case's, thinking of a cheap E2180 (down the page a > bit), I don't need much grunt, all it will be doing it running nfs > > > any thoughts ?
Yes, you are deluded :-) 6 disks are NOISY no matter what. I use an ELX mini ITX box with a single WD 750G drive. Dead quiet and nice. The Antec NSK 1380 is just about in-audible at 1 meter and can take 2 disks if you fiddle and a uATX motherboard. (I use an AMD BE2300) which has grunt but is silent and cool (sustained about 35W for the whole system, Gigabyte + 2G +160G, - on the meter per 24 hours. The single police-strobe-blue is unpluggable, whereupon the box is dark. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
