Best server tower?

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board2death986

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Looking for the best server tower available for my new rig. Right now i have my eyes set on the original heavy as hell Tt Armor, but the stacker looks good as well. wondering what people thought would work well for under 200 bucks.
 
I know someone who has the armor, and he can apparently carry it while hopping on one leg (right now he has a broken leg). I personally like the case a lot, it looks very nice, and despite all his massive fans in it, it is very quiet. Even with them all cranking, all you hear is a loud hum, no high pitched wining or anythign like that. The case was a koy to install stuff into, plenty of room, with the one exception of his oversize powersupply. It looks very nice, with the segmented window, and the fans glowign through the font air filters (which appear wo work VERY well. Althernatly, the Antec Plus view II (my current case) would be a nice choice if you do not need 5.25 bays all up and down. It is also very heavy (steel), but has modular drive cages, which pop out when you want to work on them, a sliging rail system fo 5.25 devices that seems to work well, a front door with 4 information leds on it (good for raid cards, etc), locakable side and front door, and, my davorite, a slide out font fan filer, just tip the case over pop it out, and clean it. Much btter than the Armor's. Plus, this case is dead silent without fans spinning like crazy.
 
The Coolermaster Stacker is an excellent case, and has proven time and time again its competence.
 
these sound good, but here are my specs for the rig I'm putting in it:

Case: ???

Primary HD: Western Digital Raptor WD740GD 74GB 10,000 RPM Serial ATA150

Secondary HD(s): Western Digital 200GB 7,200 RPM IDE,Seagate 300GB 7,200RPM IDE

Motherboard: ASUS A8N-SLI Premium Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Toledo 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Dual Core Processor

Video Card(x2): eVGA 256-P2-N517-AX Geforce 7800GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16

PSU: SILVERSTONE SST-ST60F ATX 600W

Card Reader: Atech Flash Xm-4U 11-in-1 USB 2.0 (for my digital cam/PSP/Phone)

Memory: CORSAIR XMS 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200)

. . . and I'm adding this all to an existing keyboard/mouse/audio/monitor setup of:

keyboard: Saitek Eclipse illuminated keyboard

Mouse: Logitech Mx1000 wireless laser mouse

Speakers: cheap altec lansing's (don't care to find out more, replacing eventually)

Monitor: Viewsonic Vx724 3ms(running two of these in conj. with my soon to be fileserver)

so . . . what case would this all fit into the best? Noise is a concern, but mostly I want something with enough room and a truly SOLID build, I'm basically trying to build a tank here.
 
When I built my Fileserver, I needed something that would hold a lot of drives. Here is the tower chasis I obtained:

http://www.addtronics.com/7890a.htm

The chasis is a plesure to work in, easy access and an intellegent design. Lots of room for airflow and cable management. The chasis is a tank, made out of solid steel but still fairly light.
 
I really like the LianLi v1000plus. It's about $210. If you want to go bigger I like the v2000plus.
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board2death986 said:
those would be very cramped to work with, especially the p180. Thanks for the suggestions but I'm sure server tower size is what i'm looking for.
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Just get a case with a motherboard tray that can slide out, it makes everything so easy. That way you don't have to get a ginormous case when you don't need it. All that space is totally overkill for a system with only two harddrives and one optical drive. It will also make it a pain in the ass if you want to have your optical drives at the top of the case because normal cables often won't reach. You can run into issues with leads from the PSU not reaching where you need them, etc etc. Plus its freaking huge, when you could have all the room you need and more with a mid-tower.

Get a case with a slide out mobo tray, don't worry about how cramped it is, unless you are in your case once a week... in that case just build it naked.
 
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