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09-06-2008, 03:44 PM
Well basically my friend has a lot of digital media ie. films and TV episodes, and they are currently using media centre hard drives to view it on the TV downstairs. They have 2 x 500GB ones and they are getting full now. Rather than buying another one to house more media i suggested why not sell the media centre HDDs and put the money towards a HTPC as it would make things easier to manage.
He's asked me to price how much a basic HTPC would cost. Basically it only really needs the functionality of displaying videos onto the TV, so the hardware can be pretty low end. He also would like a graphics card with a HDMI output on it, but it's not necessary.
Now i've just had a quick look for cases and I don't seem to be able to find anything suitable. Obviously it's going to be sat underneath the TV on the stand or whatever, so it needs to be relatively small. It also needs to have plenty of room for hard drives in it. I'd say space for about 4 which us where my problem came in lol.
Basically i'm looking for a relatively small computer case which has room for around 4 HDDs. I'm also looking for a graphics card that will fit in the case and has a HDMI output if possible.
Any suggestions?
He's asked me to price how much a basic HTPC would cost. Basically it only really needs the functionality of displaying videos onto the TV, so the hardware can be pretty low end. He also would like a graphics card with a HDMI output on it, but it's not necessary.
Now i've just had a quick look for cases and I don't seem to be able to find anything suitable. Obviously it's going to be sat underneath the TV on the stand or whatever, so it needs to be relatively small. It also needs to have plenty of room for hard drives in it. I'd say space for about 4 which us where my problem came in lol.
Basically i'm looking for a relatively small computer case which has room for around 4 HDDs. I'm also looking for a graphics card that will fit in the case and has a HDMI output if possible.
Any suggestions?