You can fit lots of modern hardware inside—and prop your monitor on top.

  • @[email protected]
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    166 hours ago

    It’s a little too tongue in cheek with the faux disk Bays. I’d rather see something that takes the 80s asthetic but modernizes it a bit. Still a roomy easy to work on case that pays homage to the esthetic rather than kind of mocks it.

    • @AA5B
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      24 hours ago

      I can sell you one with real floppy drives!

  • @[email protected]
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    207 hours ago

    It’s really too bad they couldn’t have made the bay covers either plain or actually look like a floppy drive.

    So close, and yet, so far.

    • @[email protected]
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      If they’re removable, could just put actual floppy drives in.

      EDIT: Oh, they’re flip-down drawer covers rather than fixed panels. Well, still might be removable.

      • @BrianTheeBiscuiteer
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        46 hours ago

        A drawer option would’ve been sweet. I love my 5.25" drawer. Perfect for flash drives, dongles, extra screws, little screwdriver, or a hiding spot almost nobody would know is there.

      • @[email protected]
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        26 hours ago

        I mean even if you could remove them, the problem is that beige is not always the same beige: same problem you had 30 years ago.

        The colors would never, at any point, remotely match the rest of the beige, and it’d be nice if a premium product that exists only for the aesthetics, would have just you know, done that last itty bitty little thing so it’d look right (from at least a distance) and be color matched.

        • @Cort
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          45 hours ago

          Honestly the mismatching beiges just make it even more period correct. At least from how I remember them

  • @[email protected]
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    65 hours ago

    I’d love to see something like this in a tower format, and with regular 5.25" bays with faceplates rather than these faux floppy drives.

    I’d pay a somewhat unreasonable amount for that.

    • @Cort
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      35 hours ago

      I hope the fake floppy drives are just covers for external 3.5" bays. Maybe something hotswapable even

      • @[email protected]
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        23 hours ago

        Something like a 5 ¼" archival SSD would be really cool. Just a solid storage chonk, that you can forget in a drawer.

        Pipedream, I know.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 hour ago

          SSDs are not suitable for long term storage. Modern consumer grade SSDs are only rated for 1 year of data retention without power. Only SLC flash is suitable for long term storage, but those are very expensive and low capacity.

  • The Picard Maneuver
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    35 hours ago

    I would totally use a retro style beige case for my next build…

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    I’d much rather have a modern take on a 90s InWin case or something. Rock solid, tons of I/O options and very tall.

    Modern cases need to bring back optical drive bays…