Be Quiet! has a new case that aims to hold everything, including up to seven hard drives.
The component maker announced a large new enclosure it describes as built for "maximum performance." The headline feature is seven HDD bays, a number well above the two or three slots typical in most consumer cases. Be Quiet! built its reputation on quiet fans and power supplies; a chassis pitched on capacity and brute-force scale signals an expansion of the brand's ambitions beyond its usual positioning.
Seven drive bays make practical sense for a narrow but real audience: video editors sitting on large raw footage libraries, home media server builders, or workstation users who want storage close at hand. It is a harder sell to gaming-PC builders, who rarely need more than two drives and are not the natural customer for an enclosure this size.
"Maximum performance" is a marketing phrase the case cannot substantiate on its own. What Be Quiet! is actually offering here is maximum storage density, which is a more honest and arguably more interesting pitch.