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Ok so heres the deal.
My storage is expanding fairly rapidly the past 12 months. I've went from a couple 250's and a 1TB to 4x1TB's 2 x 500GB, 2 x 250GB + My SAS drives I use for OS, pagefile and scratch disks. (needed for backups and stuff)
What I'm looking for is a 4U rackmount server with internal cooling like the 4220 but just without the 20 drive bays. I'm using a Core i7 its not overclocked just now but when I get round to replacing the stock hsf I will. I'll also be buying a NVIDIA Fermi GPU when they're out so it'll need to be able to fit that. I'm assuming most long ones will be fine since they take the 12x13 motherboards which should be the MAX length of the card right? (is it not a standard or something they can only be 13 inches long?)
So what 4U (or 5U I'm not fussed) do you recommend? I like the fans just before the motherboard blowing across, makes sense to have the fans pushing air across the board at as high a cfm as possible and since there will be minimum drives in that then it should be pulling cold air mainly. I am contious about noise so if there is any with 92/120 mid case fans instead of high rpm 80's that'd be great. (they can be replaced with normal ones anyway right if there isnt ones with 92/120's)
Or !
If there is sort of bracket you can buy aftermarket that just like clicks on somehow with 4 92/120 fans on it that'd be awesome!
Thanks
(also why is there hardly any threads in the case section and why cant i see older ones?)
EDIT EDIT EDIT EDIT
I found this
http://rackmountmart.stores.yahoo.net/rm4uracchas1.html Which I quite like the look of and the insides seem good too. Seems like plenty room too for a big long graphics card as well. If anyone could find something similar to that, or that case, avaliable in the UK i'td be GREATLY appreciated!
My storage is expanding fairly rapidly the past 12 months. I've went from a couple 250's and a 1TB to 4x1TB's 2 x 500GB, 2 x 250GB + My SAS drives I use for OS, pagefile and scratch disks. (needed for backups and stuff)
What I'm looking for is a 4U rackmount server with internal cooling like the 4220 but just without the 20 drive bays. I'm using a Core i7 its not overclocked just now but when I get round to replacing the stock hsf I will. I'll also be buying a NVIDIA Fermi GPU when they're out so it'll need to be able to fit that. I'm assuming most long ones will be fine since they take the 12x13 motherboards which should be the MAX length of the card right? (is it not a standard or something they can only be 13 inches long?)
So what 4U (or 5U I'm not fussed) do you recommend? I like the fans just before the motherboard blowing across, makes sense to have the fans pushing air across the board at as high a cfm as possible and since there will be minimum drives in that then it should be pulling cold air mainly. I am contious about noise so if there is any with 92/120 mid case fans instead of high rpm 80's that'd be great. (they can be replaced with normal ones anyway right if there isnt ones with 92/120's)
Or !
If there is sort of bracket you can buy aftermarket that just like clicks on somehow with 4 92/120 fans on it that'd be awesome!
Thanks
(also why is there hardly any threads in the case section and why cant i see older ones?)
EDIT EDIT EDIT EDIT
I found this
http://rackmountmart.stores.yahoo.net/rm4uracchas1.html Which I quite like the look of and the insides seem good too. Seems like plenty room too for a big long graphics card as well. If anyone could find something similar to that, or that case, avaliable in the UK i'td be GREATLY appreciated!
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