home nas building

[Splash]

ok, to your response , funkstar, i did forget to mention that my case is only 3.5" anywaise but thanks

No, your case is not 3.5". That's the size of an internal hard drive bay.

[Funkstar]

ok, to your response , funkstar, i did forget to mention that my case is only 3.5" anywaise but thanks

How can the case be 3.5" when you have CD drives in it? Thats makes it 5.25".

ok thank you..now one more question... do you have any suggestions for a small board with 8 sata ports that would give me RAID configuration abilities?

The only one I've ever see was the one you linked to in your first post

[macforce]

haha yes thats right i was just thinking of the harddrive sizes my mistake....

and to splash's post it needs to be small because my case, similar to the one i liked in a post before, has limited extra storage in the back of it, because after all i am just modifying this case to do what i want with it, and because it has no type of board in it to begin with and now im trying to put one in it

[macforce]

and i did find a board with 8 sata ports in it so there would be no need for a card at all....and its about 12" by 9" so it could possibly fit but im not sure?

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/...ProductID=2551

[Splash]

*suddenly all becomes clear*

So you want a device which will fit in a 5.25" bay that will convert your case into something capable of being a NAS? In that case... like Funkstar said, I've never seen anything like it (other than what you linked in your OP). If you want my advice though I'd ditch the idea of modding that case and just pick up a cheap regular PC case and go that route: that way you can buy cheaper hardware overall rather than being tied to some tiny device where you can't feasibly upgrade things like the CPU if what comes onboard doesn't do the job.

[macforce]

ok thanks

[Splash]

and i did find a board with 8 sata ports in it so there would be no need for a card at all....and its about 12" by 9" so it could possibly fit but im not sure?

*now* we're getting somwehere!

12*9.6 is standard ATX, so that's probably what you're looking at.

[macforce]

so you saying just configure any board that meets my needs and connect it to , i guess you could call it a hard drive bay?

[Funkstar]

Well, not connect it to the case, but fit it internally some how.

You are also going to need to change the PSU as the one in that box won'd have a full ATX header.

[macforce]

ok thank you very much...