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Icy Dock Launches New Aluminum HDD Enclosure

Yet another HDD enclosure has appeared, one that promises to house any 2.5-inc or 3.5-inch SATA hard drive, establish the connection to PCs and protect the unit during transportation. Icy Dock is the company that brought forward the new product, whose name is MB559U3S-1S. It comes with USB 3.0 + eSATA combo conne...

26 May 2012
07:02 GMT

Marshal Announces HDD Dock and Enclosures

External storage devices are all well and good, but for those who have regular SATA drives lying about, Japanese company Marshal has created a pair of enclosures and a docking station. The three devices that Marshal has created are called MAL-3235SBK, MAL-3335SBKU and MAL-3635SBK. The first two are external drive ...

15 March 2012
16:51 GMT

Colorful Intros Reversed Technology eXtended Case

That a PC case is upside down can't really be said about most enclosures, unless one deliberately makes it stand on its head, but Colorful just gave a new meaning to the phrase. What the company did was build a PC chassis which was designed in accordance with the RTS (Reversed Technology eXtended) technology. ...

1 December 2011
08:10 GMT

Thermaltake Outs Case of Its Own, MS-I Snow

Not one to fade into obscurity, Thermaltake did what Antec did, more or less, and launched a new PC case, one that has the happiness of Thermaltake's fans in mind. What that means is that the product is supposed to be a sort of way to say “thank you” to all the fans of the Commander MS-I, which the ...

30 November 2011
16:31 GMT

Thunderbolt HDD Cases Is What ORICO Is Making

Intel's Thunderbolt technology may not have gotten that much attention yet, but Chinese company ORICO decided to make some enclosures that could use it anyway. That's drive enclosures, not desktop cases meant to house entire systems. According to the Internet (this small part of it anyway), four SATA driv...

16 November 2011
18:21 GMT

Spire Epoxi Rev. 2 Case Now Listed

In an episode of going with what works, Spire has created a new gaming case which is really a revision of a previously available product and is aimed at those gamers that don't want to spend too big a fortune on the enclosure.When it comes to making a system stand out, as far as visuals go at any rate, most of ...

14 July 2011
09:02 GMT

ARC Midi Case from Fractal Design Unveiled

With all the new hardware coming out, it makes sense that case makers would also present new products, and this is exactly what Fractal Design did with its newest press release.The past month has seen the arrival or preview of quite a few new hardware devices, even despite the way tablets have been grabbing most of ...

11 July 2011
07:32 GMT

Thermaltake's PC Case Portfolio Expands

As if to offer consumers something else to look at besides tablets, Thermaltake stepped forward, in a sense, and presented its latest PC enclosure for the entry-level market that is, nonetheless, fairly spacious.Whenever gamers and enthusiasts want to build a new PC, they make a point of not just getting the best ha...

1 July 2011
07:33 GMT

Cool and Soundproof Cooler Master Silencio 550 Case Listed Online

Cooler Master unleashed many cases, cooling solutions and power supplies over the years, and it looks like this occasion has it preparing an enclosure for those that want their systems silent and mighty at the same time.One thing about high-end hardware, especially central processing units and graphics cards, is tha...

6 May 2011
04:11 GMT

Thermaltake Chaser MK-1 PC Game Chassis Announced

There is more than one company that makers PC enclosures in this world, and Thermaltake is one of those that knows how to make a so-called gaming case, as proven by its newest one to get detailed.While it might seem as though a company may be taking a break from things, the truth is that, even when things are eerily...

3 May 2011
08:40 GMT

X-Warrior Chassis Is Aerocool's Newest Gaming Case

Aerocool is one of those companies that makes its living off end users' needs for ever new and good cases, among other things, and it looks like its most recent, gaming-oriented model is ready to rumble.Nowadays, saying that there is a wide variety of any and all sorts of PC components would be an understatemen...

15 April 2011
06:40 GMT

New Enthusiast Case from SilverStone Swoops In

Swooping may or may not be bad, depending on context, but SilverStone wants to make it good when it comes to its third-generation Raven, though strictly in a metaphorical sense, what with the product being made of steel and hardly aerodynamic.Birds, mythical beasts, anything in the animal kingdom, even things from v...

11 April 2011
03:28 GMT

New Sharkoon RAID Enclosures Support USB 3.0

The SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface is one that has spread quite quickly among storage devices, and it really looks like the Sharkoon has made liberal use of it when it built its two newest external drive enclosures.While at one point storage devices were bulky things that had no place other than inside equally burly c...

6 April 2011
09:07 GMT

Jazzmate Drive Enclosure Series Gets Two New Members

Like so many other IT players, Enermax deals in various sorts of electronics and hardware components, so it is no mystery that drive enclosure series are amongst its selling products, like the one that just got updated. Enermax is a company widely known for its many coolers, power supplies, computer cases and var...

1 April 2011
02:50 GMT

Cubitek Experiments with Modular Enclosures, Presents the Magic Cube

The PC case market is definitely not a small one, and there’s a whole bunch of different designs, but it seems Cubiteck still managed to put together a pair of less ordinary ones, namely two magic Cube models that are actually each composed of several pieces. It seems that Cubitek is trying to escape whatever tid...

19 March 2011
04:53 GMT

SilverStone Grandia GD06 HTPC Case Now Official

Coming to offer some variety on a market more or less crowded with new graphics cards, SilverStone has developed a new small form factor case based on two of its more popular, previous products.SilverStone is one of those companies that has been on the market for computer cases for a long time, so it already has a s...

16 March 2011
06:48 GMT

Sharkoon PC Case Collection Welcomes Scorpio 1000 and 2000

It appears that Antec is not the only company to have broken the silence in order to deliver new computer cases, as Sharkoon has also provided two of them, new additions to the existing Scorpio line.Sharkoon Technologies figured it was high time its two newest PC enclosures saw the light of day, so it updated its we...

4 February 2011
06:01 GMT

Antec Expands Lineup with Updated Gaming Twelve Hundred Case

Antec recently issued a press release in which it described the updates to four of its cases, and it seems that the Gaming Series Twelve hundred V3 is one of the products in question.Antec is one of the few companies which, despite the general lack of any movement on the IT market, still took the time to offer somet...

4 February 2011
04:39 GMT

Elite 343 and 371 Cases from Cooler Master Detailed

It seems that releasing new case fans is not all that Cooler Master is up to, as there seem to be two Elite series cases on the way, one for small and one for large personal computers.High-end, intricate PC cases may be the ones that get most of the media's attention, but they are not suited for the bulk of the...

20 January 2011
04:28 GMT

Aerocool Rs-4 Mid-Tower Case to Start Shipping This Week

CES 2011 may be over now, but companies are hardly ready to turn silent and inactive, as evidenced by Aerocool, whose Rs-4 mid-tower case has just been announced and added to its maker's website.The new Rs-4 case that Aerocool created is a mid-tower chassis that does its best to capture gamers' attention w...

11 January 2011
11:11 GMT

BitFenix Brings Its PC Cases to the US

Since the new year has begun, any and all suppliers of PC components of any kind are eagerly expanding their product lines and horizons, and BitFenix decided it was time to stretch out to other markets.BitFenix is a fairly new provider of desktop PC enclosures stationed in Taiwan and which has already shown off a fe...

3 January 2011
08:01 GMT

RaidSonic Icy Box USB 3.0 NAS Enclosure Has Real-Time OS

It appears that the realms of network-attached storage has just gotten a new citizen, only this time it is not a new multi-bay device, but more of an enclosure designed in such a way as to be able to connect to a network or PC, or other electronics even, through multiple means.The market has already seen the arrival...

30 November 2010
03:43 GMT

Icy Dock Dual-Bay RAID Enclosure Up for Pre-Order

Since there are users that enjoy the security and performance of RAID storage setups, Icy Dock went ahead and created an enclosure that can configure two drives in this particular way.What Icy Dock came up with can basically be seen as a means to perform data backup using an external storage device.Basically, the co...

15 November 2010
07:00 GMT

European Stores to Receive Xigmatek's Pantheon this Month

Xigmatek has been selling 'God-named' PC enclosures for a long time and it seems that a certain newer chassis, named after a whole group of gods not just one, will soon start selling on the European market.Sometime last month, Xigmatek released a certain enclosure known as the Pantheon.This chassis was the...

12 November 2010
06:57 GMT

TRENDnet Plays the USB 3.0 Card With Two Drive Enclosures

While makers of HDDs and SSDs are busy creating internal and external/portable drives, they are also making enclosures meant to let regular SATA drives be used externally, and TRENDnet has just revealed two such items.TRENDnet's two newly-created drive enclosures, dubbed TU3-S35 and TU3-S25 are meant to house 3...

3 November 2010
06:01 GMT

Huntkey Shield H405 Case Reduces Electromagnetic Radiation

Huntkey decided to create a computer enclosure that, instead of focusing on aesthetics or overall feature richness, puts more emphasis on something most chassis don't focus on overmuch, namely electromagnetic radiation.Like all electronics, any PC configuration creates an amount of electromagnetic radiation.Nor...

1 November 2010
10:31 GMT

New RaidSonic HDD/SSD Enclosures Work at SuperSpeed

The SuperSpeed USB 3.0 standard has scored yet another success, in the form of a pair of drive enclosures that RaidSonic has prepared for the myriad of 2.5-inch storage units that exist in the world. As more advanced storage solutions get launched, end-users keep buying hard disks and solid state drives that are fas...

19 October 2010
07:56 GMT

Colorful Raynor Tower Chassis Boasts Shark-Fin Styling

Since a good design element often proves lucrative on multiple types of products, Colorful seems to have decided to take the shark-fin styling it used on several recent video boards and implement it in its newest PC case.The new enclosure that the company has prepared is known as the Raynor Tower and utilizes the AT...

18 October 2010
08:28 GMT

Red Devil RS-9 Chassis from Aerocool Now On Sale in Europe

Instead of unveiling a completely new product, Aerocool decided it was time for one of its existing ones to expand its horizons, so it took the high-end RS-9 Devil Red mid-tower chassis, the latest member of the PGS-R series, and sent it to Europe.Gaming chassis are built in such a way as to not only provide room fo...

8 October 2010
06:19 GMT

Corsair Graphite Series 600T Mid-Tower Case Now Selling

As it happens, Corsair showed off a mid-tower enclosure back in June and it seems that the company has finally gotten around to making it commercially available, which means that stores across the world should soon start selling the Graphite Series 600T.Even though Corsair is most famous for its high-end memory and ...

7 October 2010
10:50 GMT

Thermaltake Develops Armor A60 AMD Leo Edition Case

Since playing the brand card usually works to entice a certain segment of consumers, Thermaltake took it upon itself to deliver an enclosure specifically aimed at AMD loyalists, namely a special version of the Armor A60 dubbed Armor A60 AMD Leo Edition.As its name implies, the Thermaltake Armor A60 AMD Leo Edition i...

4 October 2010
11:00 GMT

Survivor PC Case from Bitfenix Made Public

Though gaming systems usually get housed inside a high-end full-tower enclosure, there are still such things as smaller cases aimed for LAN parties, such as the one that BitFenix has just announced, the Survivor.BitFenix may be a relatively new presence on the market for computer cases but it seems to seek to carve ...

30 September 2010
04:40 GMT

Patriot Memory Offers New Convoy Four-Bay HDD Enclosures

Though 3.5-inch internal storage units are the most common among consumers, the 2.5-inch form factor is still quite widespread, especially among SSDs, so Patriot decided to offer a 5.25-inch enclosure capable of accommodating up to four of them.Normally, in order for a 2.5-inch drive to be used properly inside a com...

29 September 2010
06:29 GMT

Lian Li Chassis Collection Expanded by Two V Models

Lian Li unleashed a fair number of computer cases over the past few months and it seems quite ready to further expand its lineup, the two latest cases having already reared their heads and exposed themselves as PC-V1020 and PC-V2120.Setting itself slightly apart from its other rivals on the chassis market, who often...

16 September 2010
08:28 GMT

Lian Li Mini-Q Series of PC Cases Welcomes PC-Q09 and PC-Q09F

Taking a break from the enthusiast and gaming markets, Lian Li has gone back to its Mini Q series of enclosures and has brought forth two new models aimed at HTPCs, namely the aluminum-wrought PC-Q09 and PC-Q09F.With PCs coming in all shapes and sizes, enclosure makers always have to make sure that their product lin...

9 September 2010
06:26 GMT

Cooler Master's HAF 912 Plus Enclosure Also Incoming

Though it has already caused its share of waves on the market by revealing the HAF 912 mid-tower chassis, Cooler Master decided to follow up with another model, specifically the HAF 912 Plus which, essentially, has a few design advantages over the 'base' model but an overall identical build.As the back-to-...

7 September 2010
04:56 GMT

Fractal Design Define XL PC Chassis Made Public

As the back-to-school season has entered its main stage, Fractal Design decided it was time to more or less surprise the market with the Define XL, a new mid-tower PC enclosure that comes in two versions, namely Pearl Black or Titanium Grey. Eager to address gamers' and enthusiasts' desire for an enclosure...

7 September 2010
03:58 GMT

Cooler Master Mid-Tower Chassis, HAF 912, Now Official

Eager to again contribute to the market for gaming and enthusiast hardware, Cooler Master has added its newest model, the HAF 912 mid-tower enclosure, to its official website, revealing a product that, while feature-packed, strives to stay within the boundaries of affordability.The market for computer cases is defin...

6 September 2010
07:54 GMT

Aerocool's Strike-X Tower Case Pictured

The past week has seen the appearance of quite a few gaming-oriented products, and Aerocool has now decided to join this movement by showing off the Strike-X, a new, steel chassis with an all/black or black/red color scheme.Gaming peripherals have already made their appearance, courtesy of Mad Catz, Razer and Logite...

19 August 2010
10:35 GMT

Lian Li Houses HTPCs Inside the PC-C50 Chassis

Lian Li has been making computer cases for a long time and it definitely likes to make use of that experience whenever it builds a new products, such as the PC-C50, a small form factor PC enclosure that seeks to bring a measure of aesthetic value to Home-Theater Personal Computers (HTPCs).The enclosure measures 445 ...

17 August 2010
08:48 GMT

Icy Dock USB 3.0 Enclosure Supports 2.5-Inch SATA HDDs or SSDs

There are already a drove of HDD or SSD enclosure on the market, so Icy Dock decided it would make one that can communicate via the USB 3.0 interface and, thus, offer some competition to those several solutions that try to do the same for SATA hard drives and solid state drives.With technology developing as it is, e...

17 August 2010
04:40 GMT

Lian Li Mini Q Series PC-V354 Mini-Tower Case Made Official

Back at Computex, in June 2010, Lian Li offered a preview of the Q Series PC-V354 mini-tower chassis, and the enclosure maker appears to have finally made the last preparation, being ready to finally start shipping it by the end of the month.Mini-tower casings are not as widespread as mid-towers of full towers becau...

13 August 2010
04:12 GMT

Europe prepares to Welcome NZXT's Phantom Chassis

Since many hardware makers are set to launch their share of products next month, NZXT decided it would join the crowd and also prepare a product of its own. This once, it decided to play on end-users taste for aesthetics and, thus, put together an intricately-wrought Crafted Series enclosure. The product goes by the...

28 July 2010
10:46 GMT

Thermaltake V6 BlacX Edition Mid-Tower Debuts

Thermaltake definitely launched a fair number of computer cases and case accessories recently, but it doesn't seem to be satisfied with just this much attention. As such, it decided it would once again turn the heads of enthusiasts and PC gamers by revealing modified versions of one of its already popular produc...

27 July 2010
10:03 GMT

Lian Li brings out EX-10Q USB 3.0 HDD Enclosures

Lian Li launched a great many computer casings over the past few months, each meant for a certain type of computer, whether small form factor, HTPC-type or full-sized gaming rigs. The company, naturally, has no intention of stopping the flow of releases now. Still, it has no problems with changing the overall flavor...

14 July 2010
10:25 GMT

Thermaltake Shows Off Armor A60 PC Case

The Thermaltake Armor A90 PC case was unveiled a little over two months ago and did well in living up to the reputation of the popular Armor Series. Now, the same hardware maker has brought out yet another member for this same line, by the name of Armor A60. This new chassis seeks to preserve, if not raise the standa...

13 July 2010
10:46 GMT

Spire Joins the USB 3.0 Bandwagon With the HandyBook Enclosure

Even though Advanced Micro Devices and Intel still don't offer native chipset support for the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 standard, hardware compatible with it keeps sprouting around every corner. This is because motherboard makers have been quite eager to make use of USB 3.0 controller chips, giving storage solutions d...

9 July 2010
05:50 GMT

Sharkoon Rapid-Case HDD Enclosure Boasts USB 3.0

USB 3.0 has become quite popular over the past few months. This is obvious from the fact that many new laptops, motherboards or computer cases feature compatibility with this new standard, even though neither Intel nor AMD actually offer native chipset support for it. On the other hand, not all of the recently unlea...

25 June 2010
09:21 GMT

In Win Unleashes its Griffin Upon Europe

Though practical end-users don't care much about what their electronics look like, as long as they perform to their satisfaction, the fact remains that the desire, among consumers, for aesthetically-pleasing products is running as rampant as ever. Mainly gamers want their systems to look as good as they work, w...

25 June 2010
07:58 GMT

In Win Diva Compact PC Cases Debut

Even as the market gets flooded with new systems, there appear to be some companies with the resources to keep variety alive by sneaking in other products besides just laptops, nettops or desktops. In fact, even today, Patriot came forth and revealed the existence of the Viper II Sector 7 series of DDR3 triple-channe...

25 June 2010
05:08 GMT


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