The EVOLV looks like a good case but is no Mac Pro. The Mac Pro was a bit more unique due Apple being able to go more proprietary. The motherboard was mounted on the left side when looking at the front. This had the effect of putting the PCIe slots on top. The hard drives were on a backplane so no need to mess with SATA or power cables. Cooling had the compartmentalized design like the EVOLVE but the CPU and GPU were in their own discrete chambers in the Mac Pro. I can't really knock the EVOLV for sharing the CPU and GPU space as the ATX standard doesn't lend itself to that feature.
Those Mac Pro drive bays could get stuck with time, I spent the better part of an hour one night trying to pray a drive out with a coat hanger from one... The cooling design was pretty unique, some other parts were over engineered tho.
The mATX version of the EVOLV looks like a good candidate for building a small but high-capacity home server. 7x 3.5" drives in an mATX shell isn't half bad!
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Kevin G - Thursday, June 11, 2015 - link
The EVOLV looks like a good case but is no Mac Pro. The Mac Pro was a bit more unique due Apple being able to go more proprietary. The motherboard was mounted on the left side when looking at the front. This had the effect of putting the PCIe slots on top. The hard drives were on a backplane so no need to mess with SATA or power cables. Cooling had the compartmentalized design like the EVOLVE but the CPU and GPU were in their own discrete chambers in the Mac Pro. I can't really knock the EVOLV for sharing the CPU and GPU space as the ATX standard doesn't lend itself to that feature.Impulses - Thursday, June 11, 2015 - link
Those Mac Pro drive bays could get stuck with time, I spent the better part of an hour one night trying to pray a drive out with a coat hanger from one... The cooling design was pretty unique, some other parts were over engineered tho.The_Assimilator - Friday, June 12, 2015 - link
The mATX version of the EVOLV looks like a good candidate for building a small but high-capacity home server. 7x 3.5" drives in an mATX shell isn't half bad!