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The Define series of cases from Fractal are also an excellent option. I have 9 HDD and a 5.25" optical drive in mine (Define R6) with room to spare and the whole thing is silent.
Seconded, I use a Define 7 and it's fantastic. Best big black box I've ever owned.
This case looks good but is a bit out of my budget for now. But to understand this properly, the Node 304 fits a micro-atx mainboard? Which this one from gigabyte is, right?
This was very helpful, thank you! I would have spent money for nothing!
Correct. Micro-ATX is the smaller version of the larger ATX and still larger EATX (extended atx). Your old case probably fits micro atx if it’s not OEM. You can populate it with a mb, cpu, ram, ssd, and power supply (don’t need more than 500w for your use case) and eventually move to a nicer case like that Node if/when you fall in love with the hobby. My Rpis are collecting dust since switching to a low power server.
It’s a whole different experience when general advice applies to your hardware vs the Rpi ecosystem. Many more options. In 2024, ATX offers no real benefit over the smaller form factor beyond better heat management for high power builds with spaced out components.
And a correction: node 304 supports 6HD, the 804 supports 8
Sounds good, I will check how much that would cost and consider it. There are probably plenty of resources going over low power cpu right? Thank you!
They’re basically the same as regular, but the wattage rating (usually called tdp) is lower.