Hey hey. Alex Samad 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
Have you considered picking up a NAS appliance instead of trying to build up a PC? I've just added a D-Link DNS-323 to my network, which apart from only housing two drives meets most of your requirements. It's much smaller and more attractive than a PC case, and the only time I hear it is when it spins up the drives from idle.
There are four drive boxes around, and the vast majority of them run Linux under the hood and are moderately easy to hack around with.
The other requirement is has to be very quiet ( and no lights on the case).
If you do end up building your own, who says you need to connect any of the LEDs? :-P
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