On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 09:08:10AM +0800, jam wrote: > 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.
I currently have a shuttle SN25P, with 3 drives (2x1T + 1x500g), I can't really hear it, except when the cdrom drive is going or the ambient temp is high > > James > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- "Iran would be dangerous if they have a nuclear weapon." - George W. Bush 06/18/2003 Washington, DC
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