PC Cases with Side or Top Mounted Drive Bays?

Coplan asks: "I'm a computer musician, and I have a couple of those drive-bay interfaces in my computer. While it is nice to have such cables and ports easily accessible, they can easily get in the way on the front of your case. Ideally, the ultimate case would be one where there were drivebays on the sides or the top of the case for this purpose (or even a special shaped case). I'm not into modifying my cases with dremel tools and the like, but I havn't exactly found a commercially available solution either. I believe that someone in the slashdot community might have similar needs, and might have found such a solution. Does anyone have any recommendations?"

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Spinserver

[addaon]

Consider looking at http://www.spinserver.com. These are rackmount cases that are designed to bring the expansion slots to where they're accessible; the front. However, they also make perfectly reasonable desktop-style (flat, not tower) cases; several of my friends use them that way (I recommend the 3U for this purpose). What you would want to do is use the whole thing backwards... have both drives and slots away from you. The only wire blocking your desk would be a power wire... I don't know of any case that comes closer to your demands, although admittedly this isn't perfect. Also, if you have other musical gear, the 19" rack formfactor may be a selling point. If not, take off the ears and just put it on the table.