Does such a HTPC case exist?

they could be pinned in place by downward pressure form the optical drive...

Or I can squeeze them in from the side and have the fans keep them in place.

I can find a way of making sure they don't move. I'm just wondering if the close contact is thermally allowable.

I am not an expert but hdds dont make much heat so i think it wont matter

I think I should be fine with green drives, but do they make good raid drives?

What ever you do dont raid with green drives.they are just now good at it.they were made for standalone storage.consider wdblacks as they are good for raid10

Ive heard that rly good ones are the seegate7200.12

well i suppose so.what about starting to y the parts asap and then you can afford a bettr cpu when jaswell does come oi

the big white block is the size representation of a Phanteks PH-TC90LS
Hard drives will be upside down to make the cables easier to access
the front 40mm fan is simply to ensure the entire case gets airflow, because the cpu fan will pull air from a large vent directly over top it, then push it out through the right side and the back via the left side.
the bulk of the cables can be stuffed under the optical drive, and the only four cables passing in front of the samll fan are a power cable (which gets splitted) and three sata cables.

This mostly depends on haswell. I could possibly do this with Ivy Bridge, but I don't think Intel HD 4000 is good enough.

Intel hd is a rly good gpu.but the one you plannned on having is still bettter

pedroc1999 said:

Intel hd is a rly good gpu.but the one you plannned on having is still bettter

I still haven't committed yet. It depends on when I can actually do this. And that won't be until I'm done college and have a decent Job. And by then Haswell will be out, and it might be awesome. Then I can decide if the box less than half the size will be worth it.

I still have both versions set aside.