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Mini-ITX case with two 3.5 internal

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I have been looking for a decent Mini ITX case with two internal 3.5 drive bays and cannot seem to find anything small. I am using a Jetway right now with one internal 3.5 and the size is perfect but I would sacrifice a slightly smaller case just to get the second drive in there. It would not even need a CD-ROM slot, just the drives. As you might guess I want to use it as a NAS. I know of the Chenbro that has 4 hot swap bays but that thing is ridiculous on the price.
 
Well hell Simon, I looked under the mini-itx cases this morning and never saw that one. It is definitely cheap, real cheap, scary cheap. Not the prettiest thing but it will be in a closet.
 
There is enough room in the MI-100 for 3 drives, 4 if you don't mind blocking a bit of airflow,and 5 if you do some modding. Also, when I got mine it was only $50.
 
simonw said:
From the Newegg site, the IN WIN BP655 is the only one that has two internal 3.5 drive bays.
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There's something funny about that. Newegg says 2x3.5", but the INWIN site adds something about:

3.5" HDD (1 T) x 1
3.5" HDD (0.8 T) x 1

I sent them an email last week asking what that meant, and have yet to receive a response.

To bad for them, in the meantime I ended up ordering something else.
 
riffer said:
There's something funny about that. Newegg says 2x3.5", but the INWIN site adds something about:

3.5" HDD (1 T) x 1
3.5" HDD (0.8 T) x 1
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Old drives were 1.6" thick I'm assuming that is the 1T one, now they are 1", so I guess that is the 0.8T one.

EDIT: Looking at the drive cage in the pics it means one of the drive bays is .8" thick, so you'd have to get one of the fancy low profile drives for it. Or just throw the drive on some 5.25" adapters and put it in the cd drive slot. Or on the side of the case over the mobo, using the threaded holes on the bottom of the drive.
 
best [486];1034477275 said:
Old drives were 1.6" thick I'm assuming that is the 1T one, now they are 1", so I guess that is the 0.8T one.

EDIT: Looking at the drive cage in the pics it means one of the drive bays is .8" thick, so you'd have to get one of the fancy low profile drives for it. Or just throw the drive on some 5.25" adapters and put it in the cd drive slot. Or on the side of the case over the mobo, using the threaded holes on the bottom of the drive.
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That's what I figured. So no go on 2x31/2" standard drives.
 
there are more cases here: http://www.logicsupply.com/categories/cases
and some here: http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=3
and here: http://www.itxdepot.com/xcart/home.php?cat=44024
you can get this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811147131 and stick a drive in the external 3.5in
some of the 3.5in bays share a pci slot or something so double check the fine print/pictures

I was looking for a case with 2 3.5in drives but then I realized I could just stick 2 2.5in drives in an external 3.5. So I use 2.5in sata drives for system/local storage and only use 1+TB 3.5in drives. You could consider this option if you don't really need 2TB of space... it also cuts down on power/heat in the small case. I'm in the process of selling/trading off all the smaller 3.5in drives.
 
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