Which of these 3 casing

[MountainKing]

All 3 looks good to me honestly. Considering I have 3 internal HDDS, 2 SSDs and 2 DVD Drives, which would you choose and why? Thanks

1.
http://www.corsair.com/en/carbide-series-spec-03-orange-led-mid-tower-gaming-case

2.
http://www.aerocool.us/strikex/strikex_gt_black.html

3.
http://www.aerocoolaustralia.com.au/au/chssis/strike-x/strike-x-x-xtreme

 

[BonzaiDuck]

For storage, none of that looks excessive or troublesome.

1) What is your cooling strategy going to be?
2) How does this or that case support that cooling strategy?
3) Would you give up some "bling" if the cooling strategy is paramount?

I'd go with the Carbide, or item/link #1. I'd have to look more closely at the innards, fan and ventilation opportunities and options.

The more ventilation options you have, the better chance of the intake fans being 140mm or larger and quiet, the more you can pick and choose which to block off and which to use.

RETURNING TO THIS BRIEFLY: Yeah -- the Corsair Carbide, barring any further information or details from the OP.

 

[MountainKing]

I have no cooling strategy tbh. My basic needs was space to insert my HDDs. If a casing is better, bling does not really matter. And why the Corsair over those 2? These 2 other comes with internal fans too....

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[BonzaiDuck]

I have no cooling strategy tbh. My basic needs was space to insert my HDDs. If a casing is better, bling does not really matter. And why the Corsair over those 2? These 2 other comes with internal fans too....

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They may be good as well. Corsair makes good cases -- I have a Vengeance C70 for a build-in-progress. I would pick the Corsair if I had my own cooling strategy in mind, and if a cooling strategy isn't paramount, one could also say "any case would do." But those other cases might be equal to the task.

 

[MountainKing]

What is your cooling strategy might I ask?

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[BonzaiDuck]

There is generally an air-cooling strategy with a heatpipe cooler, or a water-cooling strategy that ranges across AiO, AiO-customizable, and custom-water cooling kits.

There may be some water-cooling configurations that benefit from a pressurized case. Others choose not to concern themselves with it.

Air-cooling through heatpipes can benefit from pressurization.

Since Water-cooling radiators installed with case-intake fans provide a marginal advantage over (top-mounted, for instance) radiators and exhaust fans, water offers additional expansion which improves cooling to the degree it represents doubling radiator capacity.

One thing that COULD be missed by water systems is a cooling of onboard voltage-regulation and other heat-generating components. Motherboard and other components still need airflow, and to do it better would apply techniques I might employ in air-cooling -- with ducts, singular placement of a single intake fan, or anything else that at least complements airflow with radiators.

I block off vents that don't assist with pressurization. I overwhelm the case with intake CFMs (and some minimal but optimal number of intake fans. I augment my CPU cooler with an accordion duct and a 120mm exhaust fan from a class of fans that would make others uneasy because of "noise potential" -- a Nidec-Servo Gentle Typhoon AP30, for instance.

I believe my air-cooling and the advantage of a binned and CLU-relidded CPU rivals the performance of $200 or even $300 water-cooling systems with retail-stock CPUs, until you add more radiators.

In my Stacker 830, I have a motherboard duct exhausted from the right side-panel with the Stacker's Cross-flow accessory barrel fan. I have four 140mm decent quality intake fans rated about 100CFM, and a 140mm pusher fan on the cooler. I think I might be able to remove at least one intake fan, leaving three. Between the CF barrel fan and the AP30 or Noctua iPPC 3000, I estimate that my exhaust is not only close to double the areal-aperture of a single rear exhaust, but it channels air over motherboard components through a narrow aperture.

The system is likely more quiet than AiO or even custom-water systems. I'm not exactly promoting my opinions or ideas, but just describing them. But I'm really really really happy with it -- it's marvelous -- and I won't release my tax returns. (I'm joking about "hyper-promotion" with that.)