The cube style case offers a good balance between size, performance and portability and is popular in professional audio and video production workspaces. These systems often are designed with water cooling in order to help cut down on ambient sound and their wider gait allows noise canceling insulation to be installed inside the case without suffocating the internal components.

   This size enclosure is well suited to the "master workstation" role. With enough front bezel space for optical and solid state storage drives, as well as front access to USB, FireWire and audio inputs makes it a versatile and powerful central production machine.

  In studio environments where space is a concern, a compact desktop production system is important. Using the highest power small form factor embedded boards available, these workstations are also more portable than larger systems while still affording the user identical performance.

  These small, thin cases are great for NAS in a networked studio. Instead of costly and slow optical media, using networked attached storage allows production teams to operate on data in central location. However, they are versatile enough to stand alone as light duty workstations, custom firewalls or internet portals.