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’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…
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.
