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Hello!
I have an unraid server that I built relatively recently and I was wanting to know if anyone knows of a case/tower that has a whole bunch of external 3.5" bays built into it. I know there are options out there of buying a case with bunches of 5.25" bays and then buying seperate 5.25" to 3.5" bays, but even then I don't really know what the best options for that are. Any ideas?

 

-Kiyometa

 

P.S. I have 6 3.5" drives and 1 2.5" drive currently in it. This will probably increase in the future to probably 8 3.5" and 2 2.5" at some point.

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there are a couple cases that have what you're looking for:

Thermaltake Chaser

SilverStone DS380B

Thermaltake Level 10

 

theres a few more, and theres a ton more that have tons of internal 3.5 bays that would be better, but you asked for external.

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check my Workshop build in my Signiture, we needed exactly this but for data recovered and writing Cloud backups to HDD's. don't remember the exact Silverstone we got but HIGHLY recommend it. 

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I was thinking about building a NAS, and if i did I'm going to use THESE if want to use a standard ATX Case with a lot of 5.25 bays in it if not, a rack would be more your more expensive option.

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