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    News - Lian Li releases PC-Q26 Mini ITX brushed aluminium chassis

    Supports 10 x 3.5-inch drives. Says it is ideal for users interested in building their own NAS.
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    Re: News - Lian Li releases PC-Q26 Mini ITX brushed aluminium chassis

    No someone suggest me a nice Mini ITX board with a shed load of sata ports/raid and This will be a perfect mini server/Nas
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    Re: News - Lian Li releases PC-Q26 Mini ITX brushed aluminium chassis

    "Lian Li wrote to HEXUS to say that this new Mini ITX chassis is available right now in the UK at a suggested retail price of £119."

    Mind writing back to Lain-Li and asking exactly where it is available right now, because i cant find it!

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    Re: News - Lian Li releases PC-Q26 Mini ITX brushed aluminium chassis

    Mini-ITX Boards
    Jetway JNF9E-Q77 Socket 1155 Mini-ITX Board with Dual LAN and 6x SATA
    Jetway JNF99-525 Fanless Dual Core Atom Mini-ITX Board with Dual LAN, 6x SATA

    I have one of the Atom boards running Win7 as a server and it does the job.

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    Re: News - Lian Li releases PC-Q26 Mini ITX brushed aluminium chassis

    https://www.asus.com/uk/Commercial_S...9AIC2750SAS4L/ - Would make a nice little NAS system I think.

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    Re: News - Lian Li releases PC-Q26 Mini ITX brushed aluminium chassis

    Quote Originally Posted by Netvyper View Post
    https://www.asus.com/uk/Commercial_S...9AIC2750SAS4L/ - Would make a nice little NAS system I think.
    it probably would but based on prices I've seen you'd be cheaper grabbing a mitx board and then sticking in a pcie raid card. Might mean going amd kabini or low end i series over atom due to the lack of full size pcie ports on atom

    It's not like you would really need the 4 way switch and gpu in a server anyway.

    As to the case, I like it but think it could do with some more 2.5" bay slots and should be sold without the backplane because it's a tad expensive at £119 in my opinion for a 'home server case'

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    Re: News - Lian Li releases PC-Q26 Mini ITX brushed aluminium chassis

    Quote Originally Posted by LSG501 View Post
    it probably would but based on prices I've seen you'd be cheaper grabbing a mitx board and then sticking in a pcie raid card. Might mean going amd kabini or low end i series over atom due to the lack of full size pcie ports on atom

    It's not like you would really need the 4 way switch and gpu in a server anyway.

    As to the case, I like it but think it could do with some more 2.5" bay slots and should be sold without the backplane because it's a tad expensive at £119 in my opinion for a 'home server case'
    I was specifically investigating the Supermicro A1SA7-2750F - http://www.supermicro.nl/products/mo...1SA7-2750F.cfm
    It was quoted at £350 + VAT - but has a non-standard power input. I don't think it's anything complicated, but isn't ideal.

    When you consider that another board/cpu combo is likely around £200, and £200 for a HBA/RAID Card I don't think it's an unreasonable price, especially considering the power efficiency of the system.

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    Re: News - Lian Li releases PC-Q26 Mini ITX brushed aluminium chassis

    you can get a quad kabani based cpu and motherboard for about £100....for £200 you'd be moving into i3 range and that's including vat.

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    Re: News - Lian Li releases PC-Q26 Mini ITX brushed aluminium chassis

    Mini ITX is surely a misnomer for cases this size, its hardly mini, have just recently bought a Gigabyte Micro ATX case which is only slightly taller than this (Lian Li) case.
    My main problem with these cases is the depth, over 400mm is to much.
    Whilst the Gigabyte case is steel and not aluminium it is better equipped with two usb2 and two usb3 ports on the front and two 5.25 bays and one 3.5 bay and for a quarter of the price of the Lian Li.

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    Re: News - Lian Li releases PC-Q26 Mini ITX brushed aluminium chassis

    Quote Originally Posted by Myss_tree View Post
    Mini ITX is surely a misnomer for cases this size, its hardly mini, have just recently bought a Gigabyte Micro ATX case which is only slightly taller than this (Lian Li) case.
    No, it isn't a misnomer, Mini-ITX is the motherboard form factor, it's the official name of the standard. And what do you need external drive bays for on a NAS build (or arguably, *any* modern PC build)? None of gigabyte cases come anywhere near this thing's build quality or internal hard drive capacity. You're comparing apples and oranges in every respect.
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    Re: News - Lian Li releases PC-Q26 Mini ITX brushed aluminium chassis

    This looks a pretty good size for an mATX case, stick the PSU in the front top (I doubt many people want 11 drives), rotate the drive stacks 90 degrees so the internals get some airflow and you're golden.

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    Re: News - Lian Li releases PC-Q26 Mini ITX brushed aluminium chassis

    Quote Originally Posted by CustardInc View Post
    This looks a pretty good size for an mATX case, stick the PSU in the front top (I doubt many people want 11 drives), rotate the drive stacks 90 degrees so the internals get some airflow and you're golden.
    Rotating the drive cage will only increase the width of the case, make unhindered access impossible, and not really improve thermals at all, there's 3x120mm static pressure optimised fans in the front already, they're not going to have any bother forcing air over a full load of 10 hard drives at all.
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    Re: News - Lian Li releases PC-Q26 Mini ITX brushed aluminium chassis

    Quote Originally Posted by Arthran View Post
    No someone suggest me a nice Mini ITX board with a shed load of sata ports/raid and This will be a perfect mini server/Nas
    Here you go: ASRock C7250D4I.

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    Planning on building a home VPN & web server using one of these myself, although I'm thinking of going with the SilverStone DS380.

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    Re: News - Lian Li releases PC-Q26 Mini ITX brushed aluminium chassis

    Quote Originally Posted by D-T View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Arthran View Post
    No someone suggest me a nice Mini ITX board with a shed load of sata ports/raid and This will be a perfect mini server/Nas
    Here you go: ASRock C7250D4I.

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    1 x PCI-E x8 slot#

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    Planning on building a home VPN & web server using one of these myself, although I'm thinking of going with the SilverStone DS380.
    Is that board actually available anywhere? All I can find for it is its product page.



    EDIT: on Amazon for £290. For some reason, it wasn't showing up on first searches. Searched for "Asrock Rack" - presto!

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    Re: News - Lian Li releases PC-Q26 Mini ITX brushed aluminium chassis

    Quote Originally Posted by aidanjt View Post
    Rotating the drive cage will only increase the width of the case, make unhindered access impossible, and not really improve thermals at all, there's 3x120mm static pressure optimised fans in the front already, they're not going to have any bother forcing air over a full load of 10 hard drives at all.
    If anything, it'd be narrower surely, because the drives would have their long side running the length of the case, airflow would be greatly improved, regardless of what the fans are designed for. You can't argue that not having metal plates in the way (whether they have a few holes in or not) wouldn't improve airflow, regardless of whether it was full of drives or only had a couple

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    Re: News - Lian Li releases PC-Q26 Mini ITX brushed aluminium chassis

    Quote Originally Posted by MaverickWill View Post
    Is that board actually available anywhere? All I can find for it is its product page.



    EDIT: on Amazon for £290. For some reason, it wasn't showing up on first searches. Searched for "Asrock Rack" - presto!
    It's on Scan for £270 as well, under Motherboards - Intel -> mITX / Miscellaneous.

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