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Wow, nostalgia. Now that's what computer circuit boards are supposed to look like! They're just too dull nowadays.

I was imagining a 300mm raised floor, the ones which hide all those red-hot water cooling return pipes which lurk there, waiting to burn careless fingers which stray too close... Still, better than the 1½m raised floors that I can't climb back out of again! Er, apologies to the OP for being...

They make their best cases in-house. A model 3090 enclosure would probably fit the bill: They look more impressive in real life, though! :D

I quite like my LCD in some ways, but the colour saturation sucks (to use the standard technical term) compared to my previous CRT. Dunno where there's a decent 20" LCD for ~£300 either, this bugger cost over twice that and I'd say it's only just acceptable compared to anything cheaper. At...

I really like the look of the front panel a lot. It's let down by the side somewhat, which is hideous: it'd be a massive improvement if they'd just put in a simple square window, but "simple" seems to be something which offends TT's sensibilities at times. But it looks great from the front...

I voted for the TJ03, and I do own one so it's not just a case of "it looks nice on their website"! IMHO it looks great in either silver or black; mine's silver, but it was a hard decision. I'd also like to say a word in favour of Silverstone in that they reply to emails promptly and they're...

I was about to say that it's normally just belts that have cans (the belt equivalent of a magazine, I suppose), but I remembered that some large shells (like 105mm tank shells) also come in quite impressive looking metal containers. A bit unwieldy, though!

I agree that it's a pain in the arse that they insist on providing driver software on floppies. I still haven't got the hang of that newfangled technology yet and I wish they'd go back to sending out card-decks instead. Much more reliable. Chris.

Well, it was the '70s and the show was infamous for being allotted a ludicrously tiny special effects budget by the BBC: that they managed to afford to make any props at all was no small miracle! The "tribute to Orac" does look rather better than the original, though.

The show was Blake's 7, a sort of anti-Star Trek with miserable endings. I've shamelessly swiped a picture of Orac off someone else's website so you can see the thing in question: It also had the inevitable flashing lights, it whirred and was generally grumpy, sarcastic and unhelpful.

Its æsthetics (or lack thereof) are all that's stopping me descending into major jealousy. At least let me believe that looks are more important than specs for the sake of my sanity. :D My old Supermicro SC830 case was a bit too much concentrated beige for one place until it got windowed...

If envy's an ugly thing, I'm looking really ugly right now. Oh well, I don't care, I have a better-looking case anyway. :p

Yes.

I'll never buy another Seagate. Admittedly it's going back quite a few years, but their ubiquitous 1GB and 2GB SCSI drives in the early 90s seemed to have a 3-year failure rate of over 50% from a sample size of a few dozen (from various batches), which is not good, and the firmware on their 4GB...

In particular it's the metadata that I'm worried about: a file or two I can probably handle (although that would be annoying) but larger-scale filesystem corruption is another matter entirely, certainly not something I want to experience again (last time it happened was using async-mounted...

"You've configured your RAID array to use write-back? Man, if someone in the same street as you so much as sneezes, you'll lose your filesystems, your crops will fail and your firstborn will die." Okay, that might be a little melodramatic, but that's my understanding of the so-called evils...

If I can just tag onto this thread, I'm also seeing not entirely impressive performance with a 2410SA (slightly different RAID setup, I'm using RAID-10 on 4 Hitachi 7K250 drives, all write-back caching turned off for obvious reasons; the system is a Opteron 248/Tyan S2882). The read speed is...

That's what I do, although I sometimes have shaky hands: I nearly crapped myself when I shorted out the wrong thing and got a shower of nice, pretty orange sparks off my brand new dual Opteron MB, although miraculously I managed not to kill it. :eek:

It'll be interesting to see if in time they really do become "the next Coolermaster". You can get windowed panels for it from Silverstone, although that will of course bump its price up even further. I'm admittedly still slightly undecided about its styling but that seems to place me in a...

Since I've just been through the same thing, I reckoned that either the Coolermeister Praetorian or the Lian-Li PC65 would do the job, both of which can be had in black anodised aluminium finish which seems to fit in with your colour requirements and both have the window panel (optional on the...

Just a small point, the TJ03 does have a removable motherboard tray. The cage for the internal discs might be slightly fiddly, though (admittedly I haven't tried mounting anything in it myself). The case also seems fairly cat proof, ours tried to jump on it, immediately slid off the other...

Several hours of work (spread over the last few days) and a large headache later, time for another quick update. Okay, it's nothing interesting to veteran modders, but it gives me a chance to moan! I feel like I've been thrown in at the deep end when it comes to cable sleeving. When it...

Just browsing around, and I spotted this remark: Wow. I think that's the most succinct explanation of the difference in idealogy I've ever seen (perhaps the least succinct being the famous "Cathedral and the Bazaar" document :) ). I think I'll borrow it if I may! Chris.

That'll be the VAXbar, then! Now that's what I call a serious mod:

I have one of the Supermicro SC830s. You won't get more than 12 discs in it (15 at a real squeeze, but I'm not sure about those 5-disc enclosures) although it is a very, very nice cabinet. The only real negatives I can think of are: no filters, so if it's in even a slightly dusty place the...

Reminds me of a (somewhat apocryphal) story about a disc pack, back in the days when they used to be the size of washing machines. This particular example was a real problem, from a not very good product line, and had been fixed umpteen times to no avail. So the system guys took it out to the...

Time for an update, I think! Of course things have taken quite a bit longer than I expected, but I'm not really disheartened as my understanding is that case-modding is one of those things that's never quite finished. :D I'm ashamed to say that in the end I wimped out of windowing the...

Okay, the case has arrived! In the end I chose the silver-coloured one. In some ways I prefer the black one, but that amount of black, even nice anodised aluminium, is just too much for the average room IMHO. I'll post a full review* once I've got the insides tidied up, as at the moment the...

I've given myself a couple of days to think about it, and I've decided that the TJ03 is definitely the one for me. It even has the missus' approval, so it must look good. :D Took a while for me to decide between black and silver as they both look so good, but I chose silver in the end. I did...

My main gripe was the noise: I think I'll do it outside next time! And thanks for reminding me of the vibrations, I don't think my hand stopped shaking for a week. My most likely mistake will probably be scratches, so I think I'll follow the advice to cover the entire thing in masking tape and...

I might've taken you up on the offer, but I suspect that the cost of getting it over here (with the additional "breaking it into small pieces" surcharge which seems compulsory with most carriers) might be as much as a new case! Great looking box, though. I can see the attraction of SFF (I...

After another day's headache-inducing searching I feel myself gravitating toward the Lian-Li PC75, as it does most of what I need, but I do still have a couple of fairly serious reservations: firstly (and probably trivially) it's tall enough to risk giving that nasty "full tower" effect (this is...

I do like the look of those cases an awful lot. The TJ06 manages to still look good even though I'd expressed a dislike of tall enclosures; not sure which of the three I like the look of best, they all look really superb. The only thing for me is the lack of a window... that probably sounds...

Thanks for the suggestion. I do quite like pedestal cases (in fact the SC830 is one), in a lot of ways a prefer the more cube-like shape to that of a midi, but I'm really after something a bit smaller this time around (and I'm not sure exactly what to do with the SC830; I certainly don't want...

Hi chaps, I know that saying "I'm new here" is tantamount to wandering in with a "kick me" sign taped to one's back, especially when posting yet another "help me choose a case" thread but, er, I'm new here, and can you help me choose a new case? :D The reason I've decided to risk...