Comments on: Chenbro ES34069 Mini-ITX Home Server Chassis.

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Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:52:23 +0000

[...] motherboard. But it looks exactly the same as the ES34069 chassis from Chenbro which we looked at here. Perhaps they are the manufacturer of the [...]

By: Philip Churchill

Philip Churchill — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:07:06 +0000

Hi Ben,
Thanks for the link. The UK has stock!!!

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:43:34 +0000

UK in stock here

http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=42

By: Philip Churchill

Philip Churchill — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:57:32 +0000

Hi Dominik,
Wow – technical stuff. Have not a clue but any modern power supply unit will be absolutely fine. I have a cheap £15 power supply in my server (bad idea) but it handles 3x 320GB hard drives 1GB RAM, a DVD drive and an Intel 815 processor no problem at all.

By: Dominik

Dominik — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:25:13 +0000

Hi,
I´ve been looking for this case here in germany the last week´s. Same Problem as in the UK. No Unit before January.
But there´s another part I´m a little afraid of – the
power-suppy. I calculated a little bit and choosed the
new EPIA SN18000G with 2GB Ram and 4 Barracuda ES (500GB).
According to the datasheets the System will need 202.2VA about 4 seconds after boot or standby during drive-spinup.
I asked the technical support of chenbro about that, but
got no answer.
Any ideas about that?

By: Philip Churchill

Philip Churchill — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:52:47 +0000

Hi Nathan,
Well done. I want one!

By: Nathan

Nathan — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:20:28 +0000

Finally found somewhere that have them for pre-order in the UK (they will receive 50 of them early jan 08). I spoke to them about 10 minutes ago before pre-ordering mine. They said they had 12 pre-orders and they only went on yesterday. So if you want to get one, nows the time!!

http://www.xcase.co.uk/p/404991/chenbro-es34069-mini-itx-home-servernas-chassis-pre-order.html

By: Philip Churchill

Philip Churchill — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:12:18 +0000

Hi hotneutron,
Thanks for the links.

By: hotneutron

hotneutron — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 01:27:15 +0000

Both excaliberpc and grassrootscomputers have them for pre-order:
http://www.excaliberpc.com/CHENBRO_SV_HOME_SERVER_NAS_CHASSIS/ES34069-BK-120/partinfo-id-582583.html

http://www.grassrootscomputers.com/CHENBRO_SV_HOME_SERVER_NAS_CHASSIS/ES34069-BK-120/partinfo-id-346959.html

By: Philip Churchill

Philip Churchill — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:40:23 +0000

Hi Keith,
Thanks for the link.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:01:19 +0000

Yeah, i spotted those too. Shame there in the US.

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:02:00 +0000

This company has them for $268.

http://smartbuildingnet.com/webstore/shop/item.aspx?itemid=112

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 12:47:04 +0000

Also noticed that the US sites are starting to get them on there sites, prices at around $250.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 12:44:22 +0000

The sales person still hasnt got back to me. The company i’m in contact with at the moment is;

uk.insight.com

Here’s the converstation i had with them;

(me) I’m trying to source a new case by chenbro, its the ES34069 ( http://usa.chenbro.com/corporatesite/products_detail.php?serno=97).
Will you be stocking these?
(insight) Thank you for contacting Insight Technical Services.
I have passed this query onto our product management team and will advise further shortly.
(insight) I can now confirm that we are able to source these cases and will move this to our sales team who can advise on ordering.
(insight) thank you for your e-mail
Chris Pritchard from our Inbound Sales Team will be contacting you shortly regarding your query.
However, if your enquiry is urgent you can contact them directly on 0800 333 333.

Might give them a ring monday but im not holding my breath. Also worth mentioning is the fact im not sure who if these sell to the end customer. But its certainly the clostest i’ve got to anyone being able to source them.

By: Yuko

Yuko — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:32:47 +0000

I am looking at doing some home server installs in the UK and the case fits the bill nicely. I would be interested to find a UK distributer and price when you guys have the info.

Thanks.

By: Philip Churchill

Philip Churchill — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:05:28 +0000

Hi Nathan,
A UK company – Great. Let us know.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:21:31 +0000

Right, little update. I’ve found a company who can get these in the UK. They said there sales guy will be contacting me shortly.

So i’lll post back on here as soon as i hear from them!

Yay!

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:48:01 +0000

Suppose you could build your own using a via mini-itx motherboard, some of them have fanless heatsinks. Infact, theres the nano-itx and pico-itx out now. the pico-itx motherboard is something like 10cm by 7cm. A complete midget board!

Dont think there are any pre-built ones available just yet.

By: Philip Churchill

Philip Churchill — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:35:48 +0000

Hi Bob Crook,
The HP system should be available in January 2008. As for fanless systems – Anyone?

By: Bob Crook

Bob Crook — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:16:22 +0000

The TranquilPC looks perfect for UK market. Anybody heard anything further about HP and any fanless systems?
Bob, Littleton, Colorado, USA.

By: Philip Churchill

Philip Churchill — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:52:49 +0000

Hi Nathan,
Iv looked high and low for this in the UK and like you, no luck as yet.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:37:17 +0000

Been searching high and low for someone that will stock this in the UK and yes you guessed it, not one so far!

Anyone else had any luck on finding someone in the UK?

By: Philip Churchill

Philip Churchill — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:08:57 +0000

Hi Bill,
Great find. Thanks.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 07:46:17 +0000

I found a place that has these types of motherboards in the USA

http://www.servercases.com

By: Philip Churchill

Philip Churchill — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:33:55 +0000

Hi JohnCz and Nathan,
Thanks for posting your findings.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:22:54 +0000

Good find on the AMD motherboard, i was looking at the Jetway J9F2 (found here: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=200160741096&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=010)

But it had things like HDMI etc that would never be needed. The AMD one seems perfect!

By: JohnCz

JohnCz — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:37:14 +0000

There is mention for Mini-DTX support.

GA-2761GXDK…no spec sheet but heres a pic
http://images.dailytech.com/nimage/4746_large_GA-2761GXDK_PIC.jpg

KD690-AM2 (mDTX) … spec sheet not available yet but its pretty much based on the KI690-AM2 referenced below. The only difference is the mDTX version includes an additional expansion slot.

KI690-AM2 (mITX)
http://www.albatron.com.tw/English/product/mb/pro_detail.asp?rlink=Specification&no=239

By: Philip Churchill

Philip Churchill — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:37:50 +0000

Hi,
There is no release date as yet Nathan, and thanks for the links to the main boards YMM. Any more any one?

By: YMM

YMM — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:40:41 +0000

Looks Good!
Apart from these 2 is there any other motherboards that support 4 SATA HDD’s and Gigabit LAN?

http://us.kontron.com/index.php?id=226&cat=528&productid=664
http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/motherboards.jsp?motherboard_id=550

By: TheJudge

TheJudge — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:12:07 +0000

This looks like a nice piece! May have to consider it over the big tan boxes we all normally use…

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:09:12 +0000

Any idea when these will be available in the UK, i really want one so i can get my build done and get on the whs bandwagon!