Hello Lennart, Thanks for your message. My comments are inline below. Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> To: "Steve Petrie, P.Eng." <apetrie@aspetrie.net>; "GTALUG Talk" <talk@gtalug.org> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2016 3:20 PM Subject: Re: [GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 01:44:23PM -0400, Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk wrote:
The beautiful Fractal Design Define R5 (Black) case I have specified, is definitely brand name.
It does look very nice. It violates just one of my case rules. It has a door in front of the optical drive. I don't like those, because they can break your optical drive if software ejected. Of course if you don't intend to have an optical drive which is very much a valid option these days, then that doesn't matter, and it does make it look very clean. I have been using the Silverstone TJ04-E myself lately.
Ooooh -- nasty !! A case that is designed to destroy optical drives. I do plan to use an optical drive. As the initial HDD backup method. And for OS installation. Looked at the Silverstone TJ04-E. It should work fine (internal clearances look OK). So I will change the specification from Fractal Design to Silverstone. Once again, GTALUG humbles this old guy ... <snip>
-- Len Sorensen