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Fractal Design Node 304

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If you are in the market for a mini-ITX case, Vortez has a review of the Fractal Design Node 304 that should be of interest.

Removing Node 304 out of its packaging it’s immediately apparent which brand this case belongs to. Fractal Design is stamped all over this case with its sleek, minimalist styling and non-descript characteristics. These attributes make it a good choice for the living room, beside the TV and as part of a home entertainment system.
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I keep wanting to pull the trigger on this case, I think it would be the perfect case to hide a 3570k w/ H90 and a GTX690 in :D

Thanks for the link ;)
 
Based upon their review, it might be hard to find the right PSU and Graphics card combination for some uses. How much Graphics card/PSU is needed for an adequate media server set-up?
 
Room for 6 drives inside is pretty nice. I think it would make a great, quiet little server because running off of the onboard video for a server would be perfect. It's a bit spendy, but it's a quality case it seems so that would likely be worth the extra cost.
 
A poor review. They didn't bother testing with a modular PSU, nor a SFX PSU, nor did they check the heat and noise characteristics with it in a fileserver role with 6x HDD. There's little need for using a full ATX PSU anyway when you can get a 450W modular SFX PSU.
 
Friend of mine has this case so I got to see it. I was pretty impressed. The quality seemed better than my Arc midi.
 
I have this case for my home NAS / Router / Media Server / HTPC / Email server / FTP Server / ... you get the idea.

It's a phenomenal case. I was looking to get a small case with many 3.5 expansions. I never expected to find an itx case with 6 of those.

The cooling performance is great, and the location of the psu is perfect, it gives plenty of room in the upper half of the case.

You can easily fix 6 3.5 drives + 2 2.5 drives in it. Yes plus not or. You can fix the 2.5 drives to the outside on both sides still leaving room for 6 disks. The case of course has vibration damping on the hdd cages. So no seek noise can be heard.

Also if you have a small cpu cooler with a little modding you can fix additional hard disks in that space. I think 3 can be fitted there, I already put two there myself.

So this makes it a great case for NAS purposes.

Cooling is very efficient it has two 80mm intakes in the front, and one 140mm exhaust fan in the back. The front fans mostly cool the hard disks, the psu sucks air from the bottom independently. While the back 140mm fan draws in air from the left side of the case (where the vga would be in a gaming pc) I have a small sas controller there, so the air can flow in unobstructed, maybe that's why most of the air is drawn in from there in my case.

Of course all of the intakes have dust filters.

All things considered this is a perfect case for anyone who looks to build a small form factor pc, with the capabilities of a big bulky machine.
 
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