Nowadays desktop casing don't expect hard disks?

[Mystyque]

Been like almost 10 years since I last bought a desktop casing.
Now shopping for a new one and seems like the nicer yet affordable tower casing basically expects people to have mostly SSD and <3 drives. Even then, it is like 4~6 2.5" slots.

And online shops basically don't expect people to ever filter search by number of drive slots

Any recommendations for ATX casing with side window (acrylic is fine) and can take at least four 3.5" drives + two 2.5" drives?

 

[lifeishard]

Google full tower instead of ATX?

 

[trenzterra]

Fractal design r6
Cooler master master box pro 5
Enthoo evolv X


My suggestion is to buy bigger HDDs and restrict yourself to just two drives

 

[Ferolare]

define r6 tg

 

[Outramkia]

Phanteks enthoo pro m and evolv support up to 8 3.5hdd. U just need to buy additional mounting brackets.

Enthoo pro and luxe already support more than 4.

 

[Wataru]

Usage trends have changed

Now with the price of 4TB or even larger HDDs, it makes less sense now to have more than 2x mechanical HDDs for most people.

And if your use-case scenario is such that you really need that much storage, you are probably better off investing in an external USB 3.0/Thunderbolt 3 enclosure or NAS with proper RAID features anyway

 

[d3adc3II]

Because most case nowadays need space for water cooling stuff. And most people wont need more than 1 SSD + 1 HDD

 

[Koenig168]

Large HDDs are comparatively cheap nowadays. Two 8GB HDDs should be more than enough for most people.

Some cases do have options for expansion if you need more than two. I'm currently using three HDDs in my Phanteks P400s, adding a HDD mount to put in the third HDD. This casing can support another 3 HDD mounts for a total of six HDDs. (Two SSDs are mounted at the back.)

 

[ragnarok95]

Large HDDs are comparatively cheap nowadays. Two 8GB HDDs should be more than enough for most people.

Some cases do have options for expansion if you need more than two. I'm currently using three HDDs in my Phanteks P400s, adding a HDD mount to put in the third HDD. This casing can support another 3 HDD mounts for a total of six HDDs. (Two SSDs are mounted at the back.)

Bro... not enough for me le..

 

[shunsuu]

Fractal design r6
Cooler master master box pro 5
Enthoo evolv X


My suggestion is to buy bigger HDDs and restrict yourself to just two drives

There are advantages of having multiple drives. Usually if you are doing something on one drive, additional tasks on it are severely impacted. Having multiple drives means u can do concurrent things on each disk and it is more resilient. If one disk fails, you don't lose all.

 

[Koenig168]

Bro... not enough for me le..

Too much seafood is not healthy lah ...

 

[Ferolare]

Too much seafood is not healthy lah ...

heng i keep raw seafood and cooked seafood in different places. havent see the need to go up to 8tb/drive... yet

 

[Unic0rn]

I noticed the desktop casing nowadays does not come with installation bays for optical drives i.e CD-ROM, DVD

How to install OS Win 10 Home using CD ??

 

[Audiology93]

I noticed the desktop casing nowadays does not come with installation bays for optical drives i.e CD-ROM, DVD *********

How to install OS Win 10 Home using CD *********??

Use usb flash drive? There are also external dvd drive.

Sent from HUAWEI Mate 20 using GAGT

 

[shunsuu]

I noticed the desktop casing nowadays does not come with installation bays for optical drives i.e CD-ROM, DVD

How to install OS Win 10 Home using CD ??

why not download the free usb media creation tool from microsoft and install via usb? It's faster than CD and comes with the latest november update.

 

[Unic0rn]

the WIN OEM comes in a CD and costs sgd 159

does it supposed to come in a USB flash drive??

 

[Rashkae]

H440 can take a lot of drives. Most Coolermasters can as well. My BURST mining rig used a Coolermaster with 6x8TB drives

 

[Audiology93]

the WIN OEM comes in a CD &#55357; and costs sgd 159

does it supposed to come in a USB flash drive??

You can use the media creation tool and load it onto a USB drive to install Windows. All you need from the $150 package is the key.

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[yusoffb01]

recently bought a micro atx armageddon casing. the one i bought 2 years ago had toolless drive cage for 3 hdd. the latest one only had 2 slot for 2.5inch disk...

 

[Outramkia]

This time and age still got people install os using dvd ah?