[mythtv-users] Antec ARIA

[Clyde Stubbs]

On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 11:04:01PM +0100, Greg wrote:
> Anyone got/tried one of these?
> http://www.antec.com/us/pro_details_enclosure.php?ProdID=15130

Yep, swapped my Myth box into it a couple of weeks ago.

Pluses: looks good, it's small, quiet and has adequate room
inside, and has front USB and media card slots. And the
price was reasonable.

I have an Aopen micro ATX board, an AGP card and
two DVB tuner cards. One of the DVB cards is a full height PCI,
and this case handles those fine. There is room inside for
a DVD drive, and potentially up to 3 hard disks, however one
of the hard disk spaces interferes with the last PCI card,
so I can only get 2 hard disks in (I have one PCI slot
occupied by the blower that came with the case, to keep the
AGP card cool.)

Negatives: the abovementioned hard disk limitation, and
potentially cooling. Don't think about loading one of
these with e.g. an Athlon XP3200+ and a high-end
video card.