4U Rackmount Server Case Chassis with 24 Hot-Swappable SATA/SAS Drive Bays

The 120mm included fans are a bit noisy, but serviceable. Also of you are looking for backplane SAS cables, I used these: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B013G4FL0A?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details and they worked perfectly. Yes, the 1.3ft cables are plenty long if you're using an ATX motherboard.

if your board is ASUS Pro WS WRX80E-SAGE SE WiFi II motherboard you will not be able to access the ports along the bottom edge of the motherboard . I will modify it so i can get power to the pcie slots. when I get done modifications it will no longer fit into a rack. I took a look at my norco case and noticed that everything is shifted to the right almost a whole half inch. presumably they've left space for air to the power supply? there would have been just enough room to connect to make bottom connectors if royyjay had done the same as norco did by shifting everything half an inch. the fan wall makes the backplane side connections challenging and renders 1 sata port unusable. and the 1 above it i used a right angled sata plug. the case is a knock off of a norco case. the metal on the bottom of the trays have never been a problem on my norco case nor do i expect any with this case. if the bottom of the tray touch the pcb, you are probably doing it wrong . the back planes block air flow unlike the norco chassis which are mounted horizontally so air better flows through the case. if your hands are delicate or you have big mitts, you'll want to wear gloves. I didn't and bear the scars. the fan guards are not sanded and will be like rubbing against a kitchen grater. the space to route the cables is tight. if you remove the fans from the fan wall it is easier, but not by much. i was tempted to remove the fan wall all together like my two norco builds. i will come back and edit if it doesn't work out the trays are the same and interchangeable . there are no fancy vents they cannot be closed blocking individual drives like older norcos. the build quality seems fine to me . until I solve the issues with my board and case modification what the performance will be. i may post an update if anything else comes up. you cannot beat the price without spending hundreds or thousands more.

The case is about what you expect when you cheap out and try to avoid paying for what a quality case would cost which is about twice as much. With the Supermicro CSE-846 out of stock everywhere or two times as expensive as it was , there are limited options The Good - Fits 24 drives without issue, all drive slots worked out of the box as did all leds - Case fan grills were nice, as were ability to slot fans in fan wall in without screws encased in grills. - Enough room to fit cables into backplane without removing fanwall if fans and cages are removed, even with big hands that don't fit into tight spaces. - Decent Airflow - Artic P12 Fans (bought separately) are able to keep 7200rpm enterprise drives under 50C (just barely) with server 2/3s full. Drives are louder than fans The Bad - no standoffs included (Yes I searched the package thoroughly, they were not there), and they are of non standard size so not easily substituted. I was lucky in I had some extras from a Rosewill build that fit the holes, but they were too short for the pci-e cards to line up and had to be install without their brackets (with the bracket they did not fully slot) - screws were overly tightened. Result was that when removing the fan wall during install, completely stripped a screw head, and had to drill it out. Several others were similar but avoided the same fate. - fan wall bracket backplane turned PWM fans into molex, and had to be bypassed for PWM support. - no manual, no specifications on size screws and standoffs. Be Aware - did not test noise of stock fans after other reviews, just went ahead and bought Artic P12 Maxs. Overall - As a builder who had plenty of spare parts ahead of time meant lack of standoffs was not a dealbreaker, and was willing to deal with the downsides to save money and was worth it for me. - For most people the cost of 24x HHDs dwarfs the cost of a case that can hold them, and should probably pony up what it costs for something like the silverstone 24 bay hotswap or 45 drives HL15.

This is the best thing ever for price. I put a micro-ATX board in it, SAS card 4 port, 4 drives (20TB) to start, 13900-K processor with 64gb of DDR RAM. Because my setup was so small, I even mounted the water cooler fan (one fan with heat sink) in front of the 3 orange fans. I WRITE THIS SO IT CAN HELP OTHERS. I was very unsure based on some of the feedback, but the one person who posted the pictures was right a spot on. Note someone complained they didn't have the motherboard screw things. It's a small bag of 4 smaller bags that's in the box. It's not packed in the server. I could have easily thrown this way. Make sure to take open it and dump everything and should see it. When I exceed 16 drives, I'll upgrade the motherboard for another card slot (would need for the last 8).

lots of drive bays. It has lots of room inside. you will need a SAS controller to use this case. the hard drive backpain uses SFF-8643 connections. i would recommend a cable of at least 1M or 3.3 ft and 6 cables the backpains are not connected together.

Build quality is average to poor. Some motherboard standoffs would not screw into the designated holes, one drive backplane was completely dead (wouldn't even light up) and another only activated half the drives. One reviewer suggested holding the backplane while inserting the drive but I'm not interested in manual workarounds to something that shouldn't be malfunctioning. The drive tray guides are cheap plastic -- one was broken when it arrived. Too many issues to overlook. It's possible I just got a bad one from an otherwise solid batch, but I'll never know. I returned it and spent a little more on a higher quality (but lower capacity -- 20 vs 24 hdd) Silverstone case.

This is a high quality case, but the hard drive trays are a bit flawed: the bottom of the tray is metal, and it's not isolated. Left to its own devices it could touch the bottom of your hard drive, where it'd find the hard drive's PCB. This can be easily fixed by applying some electrical tape to the tray, but IMO, this problem should not exist from the factory - it'd be trivial for the manufacturer to ship the trays pre-isolated. Additionally, the fans are somewhat noisy, however the rear fans can be adjusted to reasonable levels through your motherboard controller. All in all, this is currently the most reasonable option if you need to run more than 14 drives. Also works with the drives "shucked" from external enclosures.

This case is my first dive into working with SAS. The case wasn't a bad price. Overall most the quality is pretty good. My biggest issue is that the backplane flexes too much. The drive would go in enough that the power came on, and it thought it was in; however, some of the drive would never show up. The only way I picked up on this was that one spot no light would come on when I put the drive in. I noticed it was easier to pull out that all the other drives, so that lead me to try putting my hand on the backplane as I pushed the drive in, and that fixed it. I then did that for all the other drives I was trying out, and every one worked. This was after a week and a half of hassle and nothing working like everyone said it should. I hope this info saves someone else some time.