Shown next to a normal minitower.
We've had this monster case floating around for a few years at work now. We're going to retire it soon, it's just too big to be of any practical use. I thought it might be interesting to take some photos and do a quick writeup of it, kind've a memorial to mark its passing. :) Apologies for the load time of this page, it's mostly pics..
I got it from a friend who worked for Telstra.. they had a few they were getting rid of, he knew I wouldn't want to see it ditched and rang me up to come get it. I had it at home for a while, running Netware 3.11 (years ago).. but it's just too loud. :) So I took it to work, where it became our disaster-recovery site server, off-site. It did this for a couple of years, running NT in a dark warehouse.. but now has returned onsite. Now we're in the era of powerful servers fitting into minitower cases or 1RU-sized rack units, big monster cases like this just aren't practical anymore.
IRC regular Sciby identified it as an Ipex Centris 2000 case. Pretty clearly designed as a server unit, it has 14 half-height 5.25 drive bays running down the front, 2x 500W power supplies slaved together and 4x 80mm exhaust blowholes in the top that make it look (and sound) like a hovercraft.
Inside the front door you can see 5 black switches, these just go to jumpers so can be connected to drives, fans, whatever, I guess. The two PSU's are controlled independently (the two white switches). There's LED's for 6 drives - this case was from the era of full-height SCSI drives, so I imagine they expected 6 FH drives to be in the drive bays. The yellow LED is Turbo, the red one Power.