[mythtv-users] My next server case [WAY off topic]

[Scott Blomfield]

<RANT>

You know what I hate? Manufacturers that think just because a case is
black, and square that it looks enough like your other AV gear. This
stuff is supposed to look good. Why don't they get it?

My DVD player is silver and rounded. I mean, it has lots of curves. It
sits on feet. It is symmetrical. It is low profile.
It looks rather like this:
http://www.ads-infopool.de/buchtip_dvdplayer01.gif


Some manufacturers "get it". Even if they are square, they still look
good:
http://www.hushtechnologies.net/graphics2/homepic.gif
http://usa.asus.com/products/desktop/pundit/pundit_f001.jpg
http://www.tranquilpc.co.uk/images/silver_cd.jpg
http://www.morex.com.tw/images/3688.jpg
http://www.casetronic.com/Product/Barebone/Mini-Checkercube/Images-c136/
sc136-45d-600.jpg

But these guys are the minority in such a large industry (and all of
those cases have a board pre-installed)...  I mean, is it so hard to
remove the floppy disk drive slot from a pc case? For once, I'd champion
the cause to *remove* the USB from the front of a computer case... Let's
get a show of hands who wants their htpc/myth/freevo box to look like a
computer... Heck even this phillips TiVo has what looks like a card
reader on the front, and it STILL looks good.

Maybe I am not quite all there in the head... Is the htpc community
really such a small market? Are we going to be (mostly) stuck with this
http://www.aaronix.com/catalog/images/h340d_black-B.gif
kind of thing forever?

</RANT>

-----Original Message-----
From: Tupshin Harper [mailto:tupshin at tupshin.com] 
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 10:18 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] My next server case

Robert Kulagowski wrote:

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>Are all those drives going to be within cable distance of the IDE
>ports?  (if you're not using SCSI, that is)
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A very good question, and I can only answer: I think(hope) so. Given the

case dimensions (23" X 15" X 21"), and the fact that four of the drives 
will be connected via a PCI card which I can put in the most convenient 
physical location, I'm reasonably optimistic that I won't have to exceed

an 18" cable length. On that note, though, does anybody have experience 
with longer cables? I see some people selling rounded 36" ATA133 cables 
which would certainly be long enough, but they exceed the normal specs.

I forgot to mention that this site also has some interesting "frontend" 
cases, e.g.:
http://www.aaronix.com/catalog/product_info.php/cPath/22_38/products_id/
670

-Tupshin

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