Case with lots of 2.5 external drive bays

[yinan]

Does anyone know of a case with a lot (12+), external drive bays?

 

[Deders]

External bays?

 

[yinan]

Hotswap bays.

 

[Aikouka]

You're probably not going to find one with 2.5" drive bays, but rather 3.5" drive bays, which will probably fit the 2.5" drives without any problems. Although, these are normally cases designed for servers and are typically rack-mounted and expensive.

I've been looking for something with a sizeable number of 3.5" hot-swap drive bays with ATX support and proper cooling for the drives. Silverstone's DS380 is close, but it only supports Mini-ITX, and I wouldn't mind more than 8 hot swap bays since I like leaving space between drives.

 

[Lisathedinosaur]

The "most" I ever saw was 5-6 2.5" bays. However, I have seen cases with 10 3.5" bays. You could buy a $5 rack so a 2.5" Hard Drive can fit in a 3.5" bay.

 

[tiro_uspsss]

2.5" ? here you go:

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/RackMoun...ount_Cases_Chassis&hash=item4abf37f99e&_uhb=1

3.5" ? here you go:

http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/4U/6047/SSG-6047R-E1R72L2K.cfm

 

[mv2devnull]

Quick websearch says:
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Lian Li PC-A79 is a (big) tower with 12 external 5.25" drive bays.
Thermaltake MAX-1542 fits four 2.5" hotswap bays into one 5.25" bay.
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Theoretical total: 48 drives

 

[Carson Dyle]

Quick websearch says:
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Lian Li PC-A79 is a (big) tower with 12 external 5.25" drive bays.
Thermaltake MAX-1542 fits four 2.5" hotswap bays into one 5.25" bay.
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Theoretical total: 48 drives

There are a number of 6 x 2.5" cages that fit into a 5.25" bay, most designed to work with drives up to 9.5mm thick.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817998144

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817994147

 

[dave_the_nerd]

There are a number of 6 x 2.5" cages that fit into a 5.25" bay, designed to work with drives up to 7mm thick.

Yeah, but there are a lot of 9mm drives out there.

Not to mention the 15mm server drives. 2TB x4 > 1TB x6.

Personally I'd rather have support for the thicker drives. Unless I were specifically building for SSDs in mind.