With the untimely death of my HTPC because of the nearby lightening strike, I'm putting together a new box.

When I first built my HTPC, I did not have one let alone the 2 Drobos I have now so I had 6 hard drives (including the OS drive) in it. I then got the first Drobo as a backup and network storage solution. That one reached capacity and since it was a Gen 1 Drobo, couldn't have more than 2TB drives loaded in it. Got a Gen 2 Drobo which can take drives up to 4TB. Was originally going to sell the Gen 1 but figured why give up the extra storage.

To streamline things, the 2 Drobos are going to be used as primary storage since they are automatically redundant, instead of using them as backup for the internal HDs. Because of this I've decided it is time to downsize to a smaller form factor case. This one is going to be a case designed for HTPC use that will fit on my TV stand instead of next to it.

I decided to go with a Silverstone case:



The new motherboard is going to be a Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD4H.

New processor is going to be an Intel Core i5-4570 3.2GHz and the RAM is going to be 8GB of Crucial Ballistix Tactical DDR3 1600.

The power supply will be the Seasonic M12II-750 I just purchased.

Going to reuse the Arctic Freezer Pro 7 CPU cooler from the old HTPC.

I'm hoping the Hauppauge Colossus HDTV card wasn't affected and can be reused as well as whatever hard drives I can fit in the case. Really don't want to spend the money on a new Colossus card.