File this under "who thought this was a good idea?"
High-end home theater PC case makers Silverstone has decided to do away with that whole putting an LCD in the front of an HTPC case trend, and instead put a little window for you to watch your hard drive spin. I guess it gives you something to watch when you're wife's monopolizing your PC to watch period dramas.
Anyway, XtremeComputing put the Silverstone CW01-WD through the paces, and for the most part, they like what they saw. There's room for 6 hard drives and 2 5.25-inch bays, and the case includes a 52-in-1 memory card reader. The only real problem is that it takes a very long screwdriver to remove the hard drive cage at the front of the case. That, and when you're done, you've got a case with a visible hard drive in the front, (although the XtremeComputing reviewer seemed to think this was a good thing).
1. I actually like this and will be getting one, I have a high end HTPC (core duo E6600, 2 gig of ddr2 1000, 2x 7900GTX and 2 of these drives, by system is connected to my 32" 1080 HDTV and I use it for gaming on the telly as well as media centre. I think the reviewer is write in saying this is really meant for those of us that are running high end setups with one of the RaptorX drives, he did mention as well if you dont have a raptorX, just to get the Vanilla version without window.
I paid a premium for the drives so I would want to show them off in all honesty.
Just need to save the cash for the case as the TV made me broke for a while :(
Posted at 7:54AM on Jan 22nd 2007 by Micca