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Case recommendation (self.homelab)

submitted 1 year ago by p5f20w18k to c/[email protected]

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So right now my server (unRAID) is a PC, with a PCI SATA card installed hooked up to 6 HDD’s, 2 SSD’s and an NVME. I also have a 1070 in there for transcoding and a few other things.

I want to move to a rack mounted case, but I don’t want to buy a different form factor motherboard or PSU (cause expensive). Can anyone recommend an ATX server case? Also a rack for it to go in?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you looking for a 4u case and what part of the world are you buying from?

[–] p5f20w18k 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

4u would be fine, I’m in the UK

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This one looks kinda interesting. https://www.amazon.co.uk/INTER-TECH-Storage-88887191-Case-without/dp/B015FA61K2/ref=sr_1_20 https://www.scan.co.uk/products/4u-ipc-4u-4408-storage-server-case-w-o-psu-supports-8x-35-25-hdd-2x-80mm-fans-2x-usb-30

This looks ok. https://www.scan.co.uk/products/codegen-4u600v2-4u-rackmount-v2-600mm-deep-butterfly-lock-includes-2-x-80mm-and-2-x-120mm-fans-atx-m

[–] p5f20w18k 1 points 1 year ago

The second link you sent looks promising, the codegen one isn’t very good apparently, seen some reviews on it and it didn’t have the best build quality.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I bought all new because used market around me isn't big enough. I went for Silverstone for the case (both a 4U and a 2U), and Startech for the cabinet. Cabinet is expensive new, but apparently in some places you can get used for cheap.

The 4U case (RM42-502) is for my PC so I have a full size 2080S GPU, an ATX motherboard, but not that many SATA drives, but I know they are selling either mods or other cases in the same form factor. Since temps and noise were a big priority, I went with a Noctua D12L ventirad. Only downside compared to normal case is the cable management that is a bit more tricky imo.