Question Replacement Case

[Philis]

Hi there, I have a Zalman GS1000 case
http://zalman.com/contents/products/view.html?no=442. However it's now over 10 years old and getting a bit broken. Can anyone suggest a case that does what it can do, Namely have a front door in which you can swap hard drives? It has 'carriers' that allow you to slide in a different hard drive and this connects straight up with the connectors. I find this very useful as I have a hard drive with an OS with all my games, and an OS with my work stuff. I don't mind if the case is a bit smaller. I am based in the UK. Any Suggestions? Many thanks

 

[richiestang_78]

With a modern case that's going to be tough to find. For starters HDD fast/hot swap bays have sorta moved out of the consumer market because with drive sizes being so large nowadays people tend just to have multiple boot drive systems or just boot off external drives via USB.

Another issue will be most new cases have USB3 and sometimes Thunderbolt connections which probably wont be supported by your motherboard headers so you may get limited or none at all front panel IO ports.

You most likely will have to look around the used market to find a case similar to your own, thankfully though used PC cases are pretty cheap especially ones from that era.