For the same price as the Lian Li PC-Q08B I have 2 of these and I needed two of these to move my current NAS to.


Thinking about the hardware a mini ITX board as based looks like the best solution for what I need. AMD just launch his Fusion platform what looks like something powerful enough for what I want to do, it has 4 sata 600 port, PCI-e, usb 3, …, but none of then having any RAID options. Intel Atom platform you can find boards that have Raid build in but most of them not so powerful and with raid option the price good up. I will have to look in to this a bit more. But I’m sure to take a mini ITX board because of the power consumption that is low and the price that is good.
To find a case seems to be the biggest problem.
Real server cases cost too much, for 4 bays it is easily 150+. Looking at servers I also can across HP HomeServer that has a nice case and in total not so expensive, but only supporting Raid 0 + 1.
Then I was thinking about a desktop case, but when they are big enough the price is too high and most other version can only hold 2 hdd.
Another option was a standard midi tower case but I wanted something smaller than that.
So I found this option:
Lian Li PC-Q08 has 6 bays can fit a normal power supply and still room for a dvd-rom. The price was only a bit to the limit 85€. But until know it is the best option I could find. And ideas or suggest about this are welcome.
http://lian-li.com/v2/tw/product/upload/image/pc-q08/flyer.html