Courtesy of Automated Home, we bring news of a great looking 4 Bay Mini ITX Case which has just been introduced into the UK and US market. The CFI A7879 Mini ITX NAS Case, to give it its full name, is a four bay chassis designed specifically for home server and network attached storage builds. The case ships with a backplane plus four internal, lockable drive bays and an additional 2.5” drive can be installed for the operating system to allow all four hot swappable bays to be used for storage (a power splitter/adapter cable will be required for the extra power feed for this drive).
Specifications:
- Case Dimensions: 7.88″(W) x 9.85″(H) x 11.82″(D)
- Power Supply:
- 200W Internal FlexATX Power Supply w/US Power Cord
- 20/24-pin ATX Power Connector
- 4-pin 12V-P4 Power Connector
- 2 x Molex Power connectors for SATA Backplane
- Chassis Cooling: 1 x 120mm Rear Cooling Fan
- Expansion Slot: 1 x Standard Height PCI Expansion Slot
- Drive Bays:
- 4 x 3.5″ Removable SATA-II Drive Trays w/backplane – Backplane supports AHCI (NCQ) and RAID function
- 1 x Internal 2.5″ HDD Mounting Bracket
- Front Panel:
- 2 x USB 2.0 Ports
- Power On/Off Button
- Power and HDD Activities LED
The A7879 Mini ITX Server Case from CFI (Chyang Fun Industry) is an extreme version of cube style cases, featuring four hot-swappable hard drive bays plus one internal hard drive bay – usually available only from full size enterprise level servers into this compact design chassis. The CFI A7879 Mini ITX Server Case is an ideal solution for small/medium size server and high capacity home media server applications.
The two Hot-Swappable Hard Drive Bays utilize the “AHCI” (NCQ) and RAID function from many standard Mini ITX Mainboards including Intel DQ45EK, DG45FC, DH57JG, etc. The available Standard Expansion Slot allows users to plug-in an additional Video Card or Hardware SATA RAID card for higher performance requirements.
The CFI A9849 Mini ITX Server Case comes standard with a 200W high-output internal power supply, which will support almost all high performance Mini ITX platforms. The large 120mm rear-mount Case Fan to ensure good balance of cooling and reduce system fan noise.
In the UK LinITX have the A7879 for sale at £104.58 inc VAT, whilst our Amercian cousins can pick up the product for $179.95 courtesy of E-ITX.com.
