Having reviewed dozens of cases spanning all sizes and budgets over the years, you'd think we would take in seen IT all, but Lian Li has taken us aside storm offering what is mayhap the largest desktop chassis available today -- no easy task with titans care the Cubitek HPTX-ICE and Lian Li's possess PC-V2120 along the market.

Known as the D8000, Lian Li's latest enclosure is also built on the HPTX form factor, which was created by EVGA in 2010 amid growing enthusiast exact for boards even larger than EATX or EEATX -- extended versions of the ATX standard, which maxes outer at seven expansion slots and dimensions of 12 x 9.6" (305 x 244mm).

EVGA's 'Super Criminal record 2' HPTX motherboard measured 13.6 x 15" (345 x 381mm) and could accommodate two Dual QPI LGA1366 socket CPUs (e.g. Intel Xeon), seven PCIe slots too as a dozen DDR3 DIMM slots. To put up such computer hardware, HPTX cases are obviously identical large, typically load-bearing at least 10 expansion slots.

As a point of reference, a standard ATX mid-tower support seven expansion slots generally has a 60L capacity while the Cubitek HPTX-ICE and Lian Li PC-V2120 tout capacities of 79L and 88L, suggesting that we should expect nigh a 33% increase in distance when jumping from a typical midsized ATX material body to an HPTX inclosure.

With a capacity of 145L, the D8000 shatters that paradigm, offering 140% more room than a standard ATX case, which makes sense since the D8000 is essentially ii full tower cases consolidated together, as you'll likely notice when you look through our review pictures (this guess provides a precise example of the D8000's massive size).

Speaking as someone with 33TB worth of storage, the D8000 ($330) is particularly relevant for common people with an panoptic array of hard drives, offer decent space for 20 3.5" devices (80TB with 4TB drives), which is unique as far as we know. Even Cooler Schoolmaster's Cosmos II "only" supports 13 drives, while most full towers are pocket-sized to 10.

Lian Li D8000 External Design

Although its design could exist considered boring, we tend to fall for classy moderate aesthetics and the D8000's clean lines are no elision. As antecedently illustrious, the D8000 features an internal capacity of 145L, measures 24.7" (628mm) tall, 22.5" (572mm) long and 15.9" (405mm) wide, and weighs 30.8lbs (14kg) when empty, which is surprisingly illuminating given its dimensions.

In advance, it has a sleek brushed black aluminum bezel with six 5.25" drive bays, one playing as the front I/O panel, which is removable without any tools and allows access to the D8000's 20 drive bays. The I/O panel occupies a 5.25" bay laurel -- though it posterior be moved if necessary -- and it isn't especially impressive with four USB 3.0 ports besides American Samoa power and readjust buttons.

The 5.25" movement bay covers look great and lock into aim steadfastly contempt being creature-less, making it baffling to accidently push them in Beaver State pull in them out.

Some side doors are removable and feature ventilation adjacent to the hard drive bays to permit air run over o'er the 20 drive off bays. The huge brushed aluminum panels are secured via three thumbscrews and lock in into place selfsame well. The only problem we had here was because of their massive size it was quite difficult to slide by them into office correctly and this was much easier with an extra set of hands.

The top of the D8000 is again quite bland, though you will notice a dua of rectangular panels that are latched via four enchant screws. These panels can make up remote and replaced with either the D8000-1 (120mm dual fan panel) or D8000-2 (140mm dual fan board), which is an attractive upgrade option for those who want to install dual fan radiators for liquid cooling, though the panels aren't cheap at around $30 each!

At the base of the D8000 are two 140mm fan grills complete with extractible dust filters to keep open your force cater -- or supplies for that matter -- dust free. In that respect are also quaternity caster wheels that can embody individually locked and make transportation a little less back breaking.

Spinning the D8000 around gives an even better sense of just how much train it can hold. There are 11 elaboration slots, three 140mm fan grills and a 120mm fan grill with two liquid cooling rubber grommets. Alas, the rear of the case isn't painted, though the shiny silver atomic number 13 looks kind of nice anyway.