File Server Case

[obeseotron]

I'm looking to build a pretty large file server with a ton of 3.5" bays and I'm fishing for recommendations. I had been considering an Antec Twelve Hundred with 3 5-in-3 5.25" to hot-swap 3.5" adapters for a total of 15 hard drive bays. Looking closely at some pictures of the twelve hundred, I see that there are small metal indentations between the 5.25" bays, which make it incompatible with 5-in-3 adapters.

Anyone have a recommendation for building something with about 15 HDD bays? I don't really need the hot-swap capability, but easy access to the drives is a priority. Anything rack-mounted isn't really an option.

 

[Red Squirrel]

This:

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/appl...pNo=3319620&CatId=1510

With two of these:

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/appl...dpNo=3142351&CatId=285

That's what my main server consist of. Problem is, it's hard to get 8 sata drives + cdrom on the same mobo so you'll need to find a few sata cards.

This is what my server looks like: http://img.redsquirrel.me/sept-27-08/server.jpg

I have room for a 120mm fan on top, but I prefer to keep negative pressure in my case to force air through the HDDs. (that = lot of dust though)

The beauty is this supports hot swap (at least in Linux, I don't know about Windows) Currently my top 4 drive slots are empty but at any time I can add 4 drives and make a raid 10 without even rebooting.

 

[Corporate Thug]

How about the original stacker 810?