Rosewill Server chassis, $69 with a free 4in3 hdd cage, free shipping - 12 bays!

[vshah]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811147154

12 drive chassis for $69, also allows free shoprunner 2 day, or free UPS 3 day if you don't have shoprunner.

3 120mm cooling fans near the drives, 2 80mm at the rear. should hopefully make an excellent case for a home server with lots of storage.

 

[Zargon]

I have it(well, I have the L which is just deeper), with 7 drives in it, and its great

I did replace the fans, but I had some scythe slipstreams laying around and I dont use the 80mms

 

[vshah]

I have it(well, I have the L which is just deeper), with 7 drives in it, and its great

I did replace the fans, but I had some scythe slipstreams laying around and I dont use the 80mms

what are your drive temps like? and what PSU are you using?

 

[kmmatney]

I have one of these running a WHS server. I'm using WHS v1 with drive pooling, with 6 drives (the maximum ports on my motherboard). 3 of the drives I'm using in my pool are laptop drives, so temps are very low, and I'm only using one of the front fans. One of the small fans in the back started making a whining sound after a few months so I just removed it. I'm running a $99 AMD Quad core / MB combo in it, and a cheap ANtec 430W EarthWatts power supply.

The case is very well built - nice and sturdy. Much sturdier than other cases I've come across in this price range. Besides the small fan in the back going bad, the Power On button never worked on mine. Luckily it has a "reset" button, so i'm using that as my power button. So I like it, but there are a few niggles with mine.

 

[Zargon]

what are your drive temps like? and what PSU are you using?

I'd have to double check, I want to say mid 30c's

I have a antec green in it, I want to say 450W. its been a while since i built it

its running ESXi

4x wd green 1.5tb and 2xsamsung 500gb single platters, and an OCZ SSD

I will try and remember to check drive temps when I get home

 

[vshah]

thanks for the info guys, just ordered one.

 

[kmmatney]

Well - checking the Temps of my 2 Seagate 2TB drives (the other 4 are laptop drives) they are 37C and 39C. Temps on the other drives are 31C, 33C, 38C. So everything stays reasonably cool. I'm only running one front fan, and one back fan, and using a Phenom X4 840. I have a full size ATX motherboard, which is a tight fit. I ran out of Sata power connectors with My Antec green PSU, so had to use a few Molex-to-SATA adapters I had. The case is very easy to work with, especially compared to my Antec P182, where cable management is difficult.

 

[jdcooper]

I snapped one of these up. Seems like a no-brainer for a ZFS box.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

4U is a lot. I have a 12U rack, but damn I don't want to take up 4 slots with this fucker. Anybody drill holes in it and do a 2U mounting?

 

[Praetor]

I picked up two of these off of a guy on Craigslist. It's not the Norco that I wanted, but it's hard to beat the price. I'm not a huge fan of the drive trays, but you only have to deal with them once.

 

[MarkLuvsCS]

*edit* extra HDD bays out of stock. Guess I'm going to pass on the deal this time and hope for another like it.