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Fantastic value chassis with 24 hotswap bays connected to a 6GB Backplane (12GB Compatible). Ideal for small business or home server this chassis has all the features of much higher priced storage chassis at a fraction of the cost.
Main Points
Building in this Case
Nothing difficult here , Standard Pc parts are fine including ATX Psu. You need 6 x 4 Pin Molex connections to power the drives. So if you only have a few you need some splitters.
Backplane has 6 input connection mini SAS 8087. You will need the following cables.
Backplane to motherboard - Reverse breakout
6GB HBA or Raid Card with 8087 Ports 8087-8087 Cable
12GB Cards with 8643 port 8643 to 8087 Cables
For this price you really cannot get a better 4U chassis in my opinion. Build quality is solid, albeit a few rough edges on the internal case cutouts (careful when cable routing.) No issues with the backplane, after moving all my hardware over all disks were recognised without issue. Shipping was incredibly quick to Germany, even arrived sooner than another chassis I bought from a German company. Packaging is excellent, with no shipping damage to be seen. Very satisfied!
Delivered quickly in packaging that will prevent any damage in transit. Front fan wail is anything but quiet, these will need replacing great product for the price
Worked as intended
Great bang for buck with this case. I have installed a Supermicro x10DRL-i motherboard with duel xeon CPU into this case. I have used two noctua heatsink/fans with the CPUs which are silent. I would not call the supplied case fans "quiet" but they are not screamers either. The 3 x 120mm fans are reasonable but the 2 x 80mm fans at the rear of the case are too loud for my liking, even when at 3100RPM which is as slow as the Supermicro IPMI will spin them when running in Optimised fan mode. The placement of the supplied mount for an SSD drive unfortunately prevented the installation of the motherboard as it reaches all the way to the side of the case and it fouled the SATA ports/USB headers etc. This needs re-thinking and is a shame as I had planned to make use of it. The drive sleds are basic but functional, one arrived with this case that would not fit correctly and x-case had a replacement shipped and with me the very next day! Plenty of space for routing cables around/under the fan wall. Other things to note - it weighs a tonne as is to be expected with a full length 4U chassis and arrives very well packaged. Well recommended.
the chasis of the hotplug slots break easily. the female connector for HDD fans doesn't connect correctly you need to use your hands to connect it manually. noisy fans. the sas expander works as expected.
