Thermaltake's $99 Case Packs SATA HDD Dock

[apache_lives]

thermaltake cases these days are junk

 

[curnel_D]

Not bad, but I like the CM 690II better.

 

[yay]

joytech22, i have that motherboard in my latest build. I can confirm it has usb 3 headers and of coarse is backwards compatible. My Phenom II BE can also vouch for its OC potential at 4ghz with no voltage increase. I'm in love However i am yet to use a usb 3 compatible device...

 

[Lutfij]

@ apache-lives - i agree bro, nothing like the good old days of the armor casings

 

[demonhorde665]

[citation][nom]chickenhoagie[/nom]looks like a really nice case. looks well worth the $99my father has a similar case with all the tricky fans on the side and it keeps his quad core Q9550 at 17 degrees idle and only up to 24 degrees on full blast! very impressive what those fans can do[/citation]

eh i ahve a cool master 590 centurion case , this has room for 7 fans (i curently have 6 in it ) i have it laoded with 4 120's 1 front 1 back , and 2 on the side then i avhe 2 140x140 fans on teh top cools awsomely, thinkign of upgraidnt eh side fanes to 140 x120 (the fan mounts on the side and top can take from size 80x80 up to 140 x140) it was a 70 dolar case when i got , it , and i love it so much on my next build i'll gut this case and just re use it, (since cool master no logner makes the 590 centurion)

ps my CPU is a athy 64 x2 5000+ black ed whcih i have overclocked to 3 ghz , runs at low 20 in idle and mid 30's on load

 

[joytech22]

[citation][nom]yay[/nom]joytech22, i have that motherboard in my latest build. I can confirm it has usb 3 headers and of coarse is backwards compatible. My Phenom II BE can also vouch for its OC potential at 4ghz with no voltage increase. I'm in love However i am yet to use a usb 3 compatible device...[/citation]

Thats awesome 😀

 

[Guest]

The only parts that not satisfied is the foot stand.

 

[decepticon]

EDITED: Oops...wrong model number. Mah bad.

 

[deweycd]

The addition of the HDD dock isn't revolutionary, the CoolerMaster 690 II advanced came out with this in January and have many of the same features. The only exception is the USB 3.0.

 

[rantoc]

Good feature in what appears to be a fairly priced case!

 

[warezme]

Make that two SATA docks and its a keeper

 

[curnel_D]

[citation][nom]chickenhoagie[/nom]looks like a really nice case. looks well worth the $99my father has a similar case with all the tricky fans on the side and it keeps his quad core Q9550 at 17 degrees idle and only up to 24 degrees on full blast! very impressive what those fans can do[/citation]
Wait, wait... You're telling us that your dad's CPU runs at room temp under full load? Nice job, bullshit artist. Quit skipping school to post on here, and you'll learn what Celsius means.

 

[davcon]

I still prefer the CM690II advanced.

 

[Guest]

[citation][nom]decepticon[/nom]Right now you can get this for $74.99 with a $25 rebate from newegg! http://www.newegg.com/product/prod [...] 6811133074[/citation]

If you look at the top and the model number it's not the one they just announced.

 

[-Fran-]

Since the HDDs are going to be in that position, I think it ain't so nice after all... I do have their dual docking station with eSATA wich rocks BTW, but I don't think that case should have the docking station on top. I find it a little dangerous for the drives (specially if you're careless 😛).

Cheers!

 

[curnel_D]

[citation][nom]Yuka[/nom]Since the HDDs are going to be in that position, I think it ain't so nice after all... I do have their dual docking station with eSATA wich rocks BTW, but I don't think that case should have the docking station on top. I find it a little dangerous for the drives (specially if you're careless ).Cheers![/citation]
Agreed. That's 'right' where I set my coffee. Now if they made one with a coffee cup docking station... 😀

 

[Gin Fushicho]

Beautiful.

 

[drwho1]

I just order this case, but I search on both Newegg and Thermaltakeusa
and on non of the pictures or info mention or acknowledge the top docking station. 🙁

I won't know for sure until I get it.
Newegg has $25 rebate for this unit and free shipping

 

[madamax]

you might want to chk this video first before you buy it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsJJ-MVdnXM.

 

[drwho1]

oooops I just read on the link hot hardware on this page that this case
is not for sale until August, so I guess I order something similar but not quite right.... oh well

I might order another one of this later (this time with the docking station)

 

[apache_lives]

haha i got voted down for saying thermaltake cases are crap - try providing there products from a line of theres that has the same top fan design pictured to have EVERY SINGLE ONE start ticking because of that top fan and having to rebuild them all for clients

Thermaltake - no thankyou

 

[chickenhoagie]

[citation][nom]sabot00[/nom]So your room temp is like 15C? I doubt it.[/citation]
just reading what the temperature gauge says. but hey i could be wrong seeing i dont know how to read numbers and determine the letter C. r u some nerd who thinks he has the coolest system around? hahaha..

 

[edilee]

[citation][nom]samwelaye[/nom]Too bad thats false, neither platform has official support of USB 3.0 yet[/citation]
I believe they both do now...EVGA just released the X58 FTW3 with SATA3 and USB3 support and AMD boards also have the support also.

 

[chickenhoagie]

[citation][nom]curnel_D[/nom]Wait, wait... You're telling us that your dad's CPU runs at room temp under full load? Nice job, bullshit artist. Quit skipping school to post on here, and you'll learn what Celsius means.[/citation]
like I said to the other guy, seems as though someones a mad nerd who can't stand the fact that his system isn't the coolest thing around 🙁.

24 degrees Celsius is equivalent to 75.2 degrees F. Room temperature of our basement is around 68 due to air conditioning (i guess you can only afford a box fan in ur window since u spent all ur money on buying a gaming computer, to entertain ur jobless self all day)

17 C is still 62 degrees F, a very easily obtainable degrees when idle given a good cooling system. ur basically saying its impossible to make something cooler than room temperature. that sounds something like a catholic radical would say from the 15th century. (the earth is square!)

get educated my friend.

 

[rhelme]

************* NOTE FOR THOSE WHO DONT WANT TO GET A NEW CASE **********

You can get a feature like this that will use eSata or USB 2.0 and you can get a dual slot as pictured here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153112&cm_re=Thermaltake_estata_dock-_-17-153-112-_-Product

Before this article they were closer to 44..... The single which I have and use a lot to boot multiple O/S's out of works beyond fantastic. Do I feel Ubuntu today?? Slide it in, reboot select the drive from the boot menu and boom... Windows XP for some old games... have a smaller older drive for that system, boom, can pop in in and load up XP.

I also bought 3 of the same drives for my primary drives. I keep a cloned copy thats up to 1 week old my fire proof safe in my house, and one thats 2 weeks old off site at my safety deposit box. No better way to recover from a disaster than my method. If I have to and my nightly image file on my other drive is corrupt or will take hours and hours to restore (can happen with a TB drive), I can literally grab this drive, open my case, swap out the drive and move on from there.... which I have had to do.

This idea of putting it into a case is great.... I already use my single slot unit like its going out of style..... I may have to get the dual slot and give the single slot one to my parents as a gift...

Today I just cloned my 1 TB drive in about 20 minutes which is pretty fast.... tomorrow I take the older drive to the bank and my cycle is complete.... Data is safe...... at least I can sy I did everything to save it....

I'm sure there are other great ideas that you could use this for... hook up the USB port to the PS3 and as long as you have the VIDEO folder you can read videos off of the unit....

I would rate this a 10/10 in Windows 7... you just have to make sure you know how to refresh the disks in the disk manager otherwise you will site there and wait for it to finally do an auto refresh. Just go to the disk manager in the (right click on the Computer icon->Manage->Storage->Disk Management... once thats highlighted, action, rescan disks.... and in a few seconds the new eSata disk appears.....

I wish Thermaltake would have put this puppy into the 200+ dollar Armor+ VH6000 which they only sell in Silver now for 35 more... though I hve to say if I had the xtra cash at the time I would have gone Silver, it really looks good.... but there is enough room for a box like this in there instead of a 2 second hidden compartment....

Honestly.... if you need a new case and switching HD or OS's or backups or working with multiple HD's for whatever reason is your deal.... 2 TB maximum but still get 5 disks and have 10 TB which is an insane amount of data..... then get it... you will use this feature on a daily basis....

If you already have a case and want this feature..... don't fret, its not built into the case, but sometimes thats a good thing if you have the right length eSata cable then get this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153112&cm_re=Thermaltake_estata_dock-_-17-153-112-_-Product and be done with it and have everyting covered....

My wife would hade to hear this.... and don't take it in the wrong way as only HDD's do in there... but that unit sees more actuion every day than my wife in a year.......

Well I hope my rambling helped absolutely no-one....

Cheers