water cooler :: Mini-ITX Store
Does anyone know where I can buy a 2.5" DVD-Rom and HDD from? Preferably not too expensive either, and the HDD should be at least 40gb... I checked newegg.com, but all they had was notebook harddrives and I don't want to get a converter. Erm.. Actually, I've never dealt with any slim drives before... Will this dvd-rom and this harddrive work in this case?
Over a year ago I had an 80 GB hard drive go out, and being mean and stingy, I decided to go the route of live cd distros. I replaced the hard drive on one box with a small 500 MB one, almost given away nowadays. Put MSDOS and Arachne 1.70 on it, and that keeps the motherboard happy as I boot DSL daily on that box, from the CDROM drive, a 50X, also fairly cheap. Then I came into a 2.5 GB hard drive that no one could get to boot Windows anymore, so I put SuSE 6.3 on it, installed it as slave and use a msdos menu on the little 500 MB drive to boot it via loadlin. Still love to run DSL, however, it's better.
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People won't need much in the way of a hard drive when Microsoft finally gets sunk by security problems. Dell's selling boxes that can use 3 GB ram now, so the whole thing can run in ram, and have almost 99% left over! (Don't ask me where I get my figures).
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satoshi: try <a href="whttp://www.outpost.com" target="_blank">Fry's Outpost.com</a>. and if you want a slim HDD, I have never seen a desktop IDE one, all of the one's I'e seen are 44 pin notebook IDE. Besides, converters are cheap.
As for slim DVD-ROMs, you might simply go out and buy one of those Toshiba laptop DVD-ROMs and take it out of Toshiba's little case. 99% of the ones I've seen are 44-pin Notebook IDE behind an adapter to plug into the mobo. And, they're only like $50.
And the Store WILL be carrying nano-itx?!? SCHWEET!!
Incase anyone is interested in why I asked, I'm going to put an nano-itx box (booting DSL from CF) in the stereo slot in my new truck when i get it. Which will be before Christmas, I hope... Also will have a 30gb laptop HDD for mp3's, a 7.8'' (touchscreen if it works with DSL, or if i can get the drivers compiled) LCD screen mounted in the dash, a 4.1 surround system, dvd burner.
It'll be about as l33t as you can get in a truck.
-J.P.
SaidinUnleashed
EDITUS: foxrd teh speeling...
EDITUS2: Linky for LCD touchscreen...
Alright, after doing some more research on the mini-itx site, I've come across this: this page, down under the "Morex Cubid 3688 Mini-ITX Case - Black" heading, says that the case comes with adapters for both the optical drive and the harddrive: You will need a 2.5" laptop style hard drive and perhaps a slimline optical drive (adapters are included for both). I was wondering if it was sold exactly the same in the DSL store, I wanna buy from the DSL store because a) the shipping is too damn much from mini-itx.com, and b) I love DSL and would like to give back to it in some way. So, if anyone's ordered this case before, or if John can reply, does it come with these adapters?
Edit: Also, how does one choose whether he wants the white or the black case on the DSL store?
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