I recently bought a new computer for a family member. It was a huge upgrade for them and in the end and despite the significant performace relative to their prior machine I only spend about $180 on it. Pretty cheap. Now I have another desktop, my own, I bought a secondary drive for, only to realize my stupidity.. there is no room for a second drive. So I'm dead set on getting a second drive in this this thing because I already bought the drive, and so I need to upgrade the case. Basically there is a hard floor of ~$100 dollars. So half of a computer's value is a case? We can create chips with trillions of transistors organized in three dimension, tested and refined to ridiculously advanced degrees of intellectual effort by the smartest people in the world, and to make the thing in the end can be cheaper than four walls of plastic (comparing bottom of market for both)? Something just isn't right about how cheap chips have become, and what prices haven't come down. What I figured out is it would be cheaper for me to buy six used monitors on craigslist and glue them together in the shape of a cube. I may actually go diy with it for real and make a box frame out of wood, add five panels of either foamboard or kydex (I have way to much kydex on hand), and then glass or polycarbonate on one side. Then because each of the panels are replaceable I can cut them with holes to my liking. There is more than one downside to doing that, but one is the loss of convenient usb ports on the front of a case. That or I just stop being a cheap bastard and pay what the market asks for even though it makes no sense in contrast to what else you can buy used that has some real engineering behind it. The fact that a raspberry pi is cheaper than a box is crazy.