While searching for PC cases for a new NAS, I have found the ideal "youtube producer/editor" case, the "GameMax Luxury G51x Silentium PC" appears to let you just shove a bare 3.5" drive directly on the top of the machine. Ideal for those who have their raw footage archive as just bare 3.5" drives on a shelf
one honk maybe more
wrmsr@peering.social
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@benjojo This reminds me of the pre-2010 Medion PC cases, where you also could dock an e-SATA drive with their enclosure on top
benjojo
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krono@toot.berlin
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domi@donotsta.re
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benjojo
replied 14 Nov 2025 16:20 +0000
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@domi remember if you have enough optical amplification on your circuits your dust caps can be rebranded as "beam dump"s
mini_ninja_64@chaos...
replied 14 Nov 2025 16:04 +0000
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wolf480pl@mstdn.io
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_calmdowndear@mastod..
replied 14 Nov 2025 16:36 +0000
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@benjojo genuinely would have killed someone for this in my tech support days. I used to manage with USB-IDE/SATA converters for convenience, but 10+ years ago when I was still in that world they were kind of shit, but slightly less shit than "yeah, I guess I'll rip my own PC apart again today for this latest dead drive".
cks@mastodon.social
replied 14 Nov 2025 19:20 +0000
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@benjojo We unironically like and want servers where you can put bare drives in and out of front slots (covers optional), and don't need carriers. But our usage is for backup servers, because at our size HDDs are cheaper than tape drives + tape robots + tapes (and have been for years).
onekopaka@masto.theo..
replied 14 Nov 2025 21:51 +0000
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@benjojo I have a discontinued Rosewill case, the BLACKHAWK, that has this feature holding my desktop, it’s fairly handy but I have had issues with some SSDs not working in it.