JONSBO N1 Mini-ITX NAS Chassis, ITX Computer Case, 5+1 Disk Bays NAS Mini Aluminum with Steel Plate Case, Built-in 14cm Fan, Only SFX Power Bite, Support H 70mm CPU Cooler

Beautiful, practical and functional, ideal if you have limited space and very easy to use. I would defo buy it again

Beautiful sturdy case butNoisy,Hard to install components in,Thermal design is poor, I had to flip the face plate to create a ventilation gap at the front.I switched the fan too to a silent fan which just raises the final price.If space isn't a constraint, go for the larger ones unless you just want to use 2 of the 4 HDD bays- that'll give you more space for cable management and less install headache.

Some may look at this case and think it's a bit of a novelty item, but I'm very surprised at how well it's built, and the thought that went into making things fit within such a tight envelope. I ended up building something that is getting a lot of bang for my buck, so to speak.I like this case even more than I thought I would after watching some YouTube build videos. Everything fits, but just--you have to make sure you get all of your cables tucked in properly so the outer shell can slide closed.Don't even think about not using right-angle SATA connectors on the backplane--there is no extra room for straight connectors. You'll also want to consider buying shorter SATA cables so that you don't have to bunch up the extra lengths. I'm using 18 inch SATA cables with right angle on one end, and straight on the other. I ordered 8 inch bright red cables, but haven't put them in yet. You may want to do the same, depending on your motherboard's SATA connector configuration.I have all 5 HDD slots populated with "renewed" enterprise-grade 12TB drives, and the single large cooling fan is good enough to keep these drives below about 40-47 degrees C when in operation. I tried plugging the fan into my motherboard and controlled it from the BIOS, but in the end I just plugged it back into its socket on the backplane (which is how it comes from the factory) so that the fan runs at full-speed 24/7. It's not too loud for me, but I definitely wouldn't put it next to my work desk or bedside unless you like the white noise. It sounds about like a small room fan at the other end of the room, set on low. No screaming or whining--just a gentle whoosh.I'm using mine vertically, and I didn't reverse the fan, as one or two people have reported. That's not a good idea, regardless of the physics of warm air. This fan wants to blow directly onto the HDD's and that keeps them happy. I've monitored temperatures of the HDD's as well as the CPU, and this single fan is doing its job well enough. If you want to run yours vertically as well, consider buying a right-angle HDMI adapter if you intend to keep a monitor plugged in. Jonsbo thoughtfully included a nice right-angle power cord adapter, so that's one less part you'll need to find.I'm using a Chinese N305 motherboard I bought on Amazon that has two 2.5 GB Intel 226 Ethernet ports and a 10 GB port--one of the deciding factors for me--and at a very decent price, considering that most commercial NAS's charge an extra $100-200 for a 10 GB upgrade card.The motherboard was $299 w/o the memory. I used a single stick of 32GB DDR5. My boot drive is a mirrored pair of 256GB NVME sticks on the mobo. I'm using TrueNAS software on it, and am getting great performance--this easily beats most other off-the-shelf NAS boxes that typically have lower-end, barely-adequate processors and tiny bits of slower memory. This thing will run circles around them for a similar price, which makes this build much more future-proof. It barely lopes along playing 4K videos with Plex or Jellyfin, and can easily transcode them down to 1080p with the built-in CPU in the N305.I know this review is supposed to be just about the case, but I included more detail to show what can be done with it. I must admit that I like this case way better than I thought I would. Opinions may vary on such a space-constrained model as this one, but I'm a fan!

i love this case for my NAS, but one of the installation point for one of the feet wasn't tapped right, so the case only works horizontally.

Writing this cause I ran into a big issue that luckily has a very simple solution. If the sata ports on your motherboard are right angle, they are blocked by a metal side wall that separated the HDD bays from the motherboard. I used an m.2 card for the HDD bays but I wanted the other satas for ssds that I could shove near the psu. I wedged a right angle cable in there after a bunch of finagling but it turns out, they actually make very flush adapters that can convert two right angle satas to upward facing ones. Wish I saw those first. My only complaint is as with all cases, I wish cable management had like a few more inches. It's very difficult to connect the molex cables and sata cables to the HDD backplane. You have to flatten them really flush cause there's no extra space. Other shell has as sled on the bottom that slides over the HDD backplane completely flush. I used foil SATA cables without the thick wiring to have more room. They can probably break easier you just need to get them in place once. I got everything to fit on my first try and the top part slid on easily but I'd take one star off cause either it needed a slightly better cable layout or better instructions.