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  • Vatharian - Friday, May 25, 2018 - link

    Extremely interesting idea! I hope that they will use some kind of industry standard mounting system fo the rails, because this may be the next big thing. Consider me sold already!
  • Chaitanya - Friday, May 25, 2018 - link

    Streacom cases are quite expensive to begin with and do have some unique design concepts and compromises.
  • milkywayer - Friday, May 25, 2018 - link

    This looks pretty hot. I'll have to measure it up against the Louqe Ghost S1 since I've already pre ordered that and my Dan Case v3 is already shipped from Taiwan. The only thing i dont like about dan is lack of 3.5inch hdd space which the Ghost will handle fine with the medium optional hat.
  • DanNeely - Friday, May 25, 2018 - link

    The fan info for this case appears to be left over from copying the table from a much larger case. It definitely doesn't have room for:

    Front: 8x 120mm
    Top: 3x 140mm
    Rear: 2x 120/140mm
  • niva - Friday, May 25, 2018 - link

    The arrangement of the components in the last picture doesn't correspond to the back of the case shown in the earlier photos. They also have this in the table in regards to HDD bays: 3 x 3.5" or 8 x 2.5" and I'm not sure how that's possible given how crammed everything already appears to be inside the case.

    If it's true, this case would make for a great little server.

    I'm not sure what's going on...

    That being said I'm definitely interested in a review of a finished product.
  • DanNeely - Saturday, May 26, 2018 - link

    The screwy looking rail things in pic 4 are so you can hang parts wherever you want inside. Poking around on their website shows the power plug cutout on the back goes to an internal cable leading to the PSU itself. I don't think you could align a PSU directly on the back without interfering with the PCIe retention bracket.
  • JackTheBear - Friday, May 25, 2018 - link

    It may be small, but it doesn't look portable. Seems like it needs a handle.
  • megadirk - Friday, May 25, 2018 - link

    Been waiting for a case like this. Here's hoping they make it an option to lay it on it's side as well.
  • milkywayer - Friday, May 25, 2018 - link

    Get the Dan Case or Louqe Ghost if you want something really compact yet same components capacity as these big cases.
  • HardwareDufus - Friday, May 25, 2018 - link

    Am I the last remaining person that still thinks it's useful to at least have a Slim Blu-Ray drive?

    I own two systems with the Silverstone SG055bb cases with the 450w SFX 80+ bronze power supplies. Each of these systems contains Blu-Ray drive in the external slimline optical drive bay. I've also mounted 2 2.5" SSD in each system. There is ample space for good air circulation and cooling, albeit not for a radiator.

    I'm starting to think mITX form factor, watercooling and slimline opticals are too much to define for one case. Pick two of the three.
  • HardwareDufus - Friday, May 25, 2018 - link

    excuse the typos... honestly.. i'm literate.
  • Lord of the Bored - Saturday, May 26, 2018 - link

    I still like optical drives too.
  • grant3 - Monday, June 11, 2018 - link

    Sorry but optical drives are on the sunset stage of their lives. If you want an optical drive you'll need another case.

    I don't know what your use case is for them, probably you have a collection of BR movies you'd like to play from a media server? That would make you part of a rare & shrinking group, as online streaming is relegating physical movie collections to cinephiles only.

    Basically every other purpose for optical media has been surpassed by online downloads & USB sticks. If discs are your preference, good for you, but most people don't need them any more.
  • GreenMeters - Friday, May 25, 2018 - link

    Attention ITX case manufacturers!

    If you're designing cube/breadbox cases that are supposed to support high-end/gaming components, please recognize that lots of GPUs have moved to 2.5-slot (or wider) coolers, and more are coming. Please widen the cases a little to support these cards.

    Especially looking at you, Fractal Designs. An extra inch width on a Node 304 and/or Core 500 would be awesome for a powerful but still quiet high-end machine.
  • GreenMeters - Friday, May 25, 2018 - link

    Edit: Or, for orientations like this case, an extra inch height.

    On the plus side, huge kudos to Streacom for ignoring the fad for RGB and window tackiness.
  • jwcalla - Friday, May 25, 2018 - link

    And here I was going to say that this case is too big. The SG07 is 7-8 years old now and it was smaller than this. And in the meantime most components have gotten smaller.
  • mammothboy - Friday, May 25, 2018 - link

    Reminds me of the Ncase M1. I own that one, and it's a PITA to build, but a marvel when done. Not sure I see anything here (other than perhaps availability) that beats the Ncase.
  • grant3 - Monday, June 11, 2018 - link

    The advantage would be aesthetics, and that's a matter of taste.

    (Also, perhaps, the novel component mounting system, but I think it would require an esoteric selection of components for that to really matter)
  • sheltem - Wednesday, June 13, 2018 - link

    There's more room for an air cooler. I believe the Noctua NH-C14s will fit in the DA2 without any issues/modifications. The older C14 cooler was slightly shorter and is widely regarded as the best cooler for the M1.

    My biggest M1 complaint is the not so great GPU cooling. The DA2 looks like it has a disadvantage with only 2 slots but it does have more space at the bottom for airflow.
  • jtd871 - Friday, May 25, 2018 - link

    Volume is a hair over 17 liters. It might look small, but there's still alot of wasted or unusable space compared to say a DAN A4 or even a NCase M1.

    IIRC the SG09/10 fits mATX in a similar volume to this case.
  • Death666Angel - Friday, May 25, 2018 - link

    My PC is 20.84l (Jonsbo U3) and it supports mATX mainboards and it definitely is not as small as it could be. Sure, I can only use 26cm graphics cards, but it supports 17cm CPU coolers (pretty much every tower I think). This is just a weird hybrid.
  • CSMR - Wednesday, May 30, 2018 - link

    "Small form factor" by the standards of the early 2000s but not now. This is 45x the volume of the thin Intel NUC, 30x the volume of the fat one, and 25x the volume of the Gigabyte Brix Pro. Those are small form factor systems.
  • grant3 - Monday, June 11, 2018 - link

    Not at all the same class of case.
    This is meant for full system builds, not NUCs or other non-expandable systems.
  • n13L5 - Sunday, August 5, 2018 - link

    As far as I can see, this case fits exactly what the nCase M1 fits. Maybe an extra HDD, though I don't like cooking my extra HDD's inside a computer case anyway.

    But the difference that's relevant to me is won by the NCase M1, the case weighs only 1.4 Kg and its volume is a sufficient 12.6 liters of volume compared to 17 liters.

    And in spite of being bigger, it lacks a slot for my Blu-Ray back-up drive. Yes, I purposely stick to optical backups - its fully in my control, can only be accessed when I physically insert it, and its impervious to being encrypted by ransomware, as well as EMF, sunspot emissions etc...

    So anyway, I like Streacom, but this seems to me like a solution in search of a problem.
    I'd prefer if they'd fixed the laboriously, physically engineered Eject button on their FC8S cases, which fails to eject anything, because the aluminum bar flexes too much.
    HDPLEX figured out to just use a USB eject switch that works universally, while admittedly taking a USB input
    That's one reason why my Streacom case is going back and I spent another $50 more for the HDPLEX H1.SODD V2 case. The H1 is a fully fanless design with thick heavy cooling fins on both sides and still only weighs 100 gram more than the DA2, where you still have to add the weight of cooling.

    So being a "form follows function guy" I'm not that impressed. I liked their Artsy entry with fins all around design better - that was supposed to just look like a cool aluminum mushroom and so was an art piece nobody will try to travel to Lan-parties with.
  • n13L5 - Sunday, August 5, 2018 - link

    Without sporting cooling fins, the DA2 shouldn't be that heavy.

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