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
Silverstone has some interesting cases like RM61-312 and RM43-324-RS, but wtf are these prices…
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.
