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Looking for a case to hold an ATX motherboard, PSU and 4 3.5 inch drive bays. This is for a headless server that is hidden inside some furniture (with good airflow !!!), so looks/color/glass aren't important.

However the location I have picked has a maximum height of 410mm, width of 270mm and depth of 550mm, so the choices are extremely limited.

I was ecstatic to discover that Lian-Li makes a case called PC-A05FN that meets all my criteria, but I don't seem to be able to purchase it anywhere. B&H has a minimum amount of 5!

Anybody knows where I could buy ONE

Antec make the NSK4100, which could work, and in fact I have used a couple of these over the years, but I am not a huge fan. 

Is there any other case that I am missing ? I did a few builds with Lian-Li mini-itx cases and liked them a lot, so that would be my preference.

Thanks,

Stefano

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15 hours ago, sconcina said:

Thanks, that's perfectly acceptable. Where do I get one?

If you just need a motherboard tray of a standard motherboard size, you could honestly scrap any case (prebuilt or otherwise so long as it's the same standard as your board, example ATX case for an ATX board) and use that. Plenty of prebuilts and mainstream computers are tossed everyday in electronic recycling plants. Some hardware ends up in places Like Vancouver's FreeGeek where they sell old used hardware. Just cut out most of the frame of the case and mount the motherboard tray to the furniture. 

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I actually found an additional case that may work: Chenbro SR105 or SR209. It is a little too tall, but if I remove the feet it should be perfect.

Does anyone have experience with these. It looks like I can actually purchase them from a few places.

Thanks

 

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