I am looking for the smallest ATX case that I can find. I'm talking no CD Drive or floppy drive. I'm building a hardware firewall (smoothwall) and I want the case to be small as possible. I will be using a 2.5" hard drive and a riser card to attach the second NIC card. I have a very small power supply to power the system. I may end up building a case from scratch, but I rather buy one. I thought about a rack mounted case because I have a server rack in my basement, but I don't care if its mountable. Cube cases are too big and so are mini cases I want to go smaller. Any Ideas, because I didn't find anything on the web?
Picture of what I have
Last edited by Ghost_25inf; March 10th, 2008 at 05:15 AM.
Update: I have a Cisco 2500 router not being used. Thinking about ripping out the guts of that router and installing the motherboard in that then I can rack mount my firewall.
it'd be awesome, but using the 2500 case, i think you'd definitely have some clearance issues. Maybe a 3600 case...but then that might be wasteful...and expensive (unless it's already done for.)
I saw those 1U cases on eBay last night running for $49.00 with shipping. Those are really nice, I was considering picking one up for my server so I can finally rack mount that. But I don't know about the case for a firewall. check out this firewall (link below) see pictures at bottom of link.
It's just a computer. Why would a case for a firewall be different?
You only need to worry about getting one big enough to fit all your network cards in it.
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