Looking to move some drives from my gaming rig to my server but it lacks hot swappable bays. I have seen a few nice cases but they dont check all the boxes. Anyone have a good recommendation based on…
- 12+ hot swappable drive bays
- Fit full size graphics cards
- ATX full size
- Rack mountable
- Includes rails is a plus but optional
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Your best bet for a large storage server is going to be the Rosewill 4U cases or biting the noise/power bullet and getting a high disk density rack server like a Dell 740XD. Either route will cost about the same hardware wise. Are you moving a RAID/HBA card over or doing JBOD? if RAID/HBA keep in mind how you plan to cool the card
You can find plenty of Supermicro chassis on ebay
I don’t think there is a shortage of cheap rackmount ATX cases. Any 3U case or larger should fit a full size GPU, though if you need a power cable coming out the long edge you might need 4U.
I’m running my trusty old Antec 900 with three Rosewill hotswap bays to hold 12 3.5” drives.
https://www.newegg.com/rosewill-rsv-sata-cage-34-hard-disk-drive-cage/p/N82E16816132037
I’ve got this laying on its side currently, and I need to replace the failed top exhaust fan, but I’m sure you could come up with a rack mount option to throw it in a rack. Probably about 4u tall on its side.
Good lord, I have TWO of those that used to be gaming rigs.
Just waiting till I can afford a low power motherboard so I can use all the drives I have sitting around.
At one time one of them had ten drives in it… Talk about heavy!
Without checking, I’m willing to wager that inter-tech has something for you. I’m using a 4U case from them to rack mount ATX hardware.
Why’d you have to go sharing that with us? Now I know what’s going to happen with my money…
