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Looking for a case for my Plex server

paperrobots
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I need a case that has space for at least 10 drives, but more would be good. Don't care about looks at all, it's tucked away out of sight anyways. Should I be looking at actual server cases? Is that a way to get the most hard drive bays? 

 

If it could fit a 240mm radiator too, that'd be super helpful. Any suggestions? 

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Something like this could do the trick, especially if you put some more hot swap bays into the 5.25in expansion slots.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAD6F6A11487

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16817707340

 

I'm just making a bunch of drive cages on my 3d printer, and shoving them literally anywhere they'll fit for my Plex box.  It's only gonna have 4 drives in it (for now) though vs the 10 in yours.

SFF-ish:  Ryzen 5 1600X, Asrock AB350M Pro4, 16GB Corsair LPX 3200, Sapphire R9 Fury Nitro -75mV, 512gb Plextor Nvme m.2, 512gb Sandisk SATA m.2, Cryorig H7, stuffed into an Inwin 301 with rgb front panel mod.  LG27UD58.

 

Aging Workhorse:  Phenom II X6 1090T Black (4GHz #Yolo), 16GB Corsair XMS 1333, RX 470 Red Devil 4gb (Sold for $330 to Cryptominers), HD6850 1gb, Hilariously overkill Asus Crosshair V, 240gb Sandisk SSD Plus, 4TB's worth of mechanical drives, and a bunch of water/glycol.  Coming soon:  Bykski CPU block, whatever cheap Polaris 10 GPU I can get once miners start unloading them.

 

MintyFreshMedia:  Thinkserver TS130 with i3-3220, 4gb ecc ram, 120GB Toshiba/OCZ SSD booting Linux Mint XFCE, 2TB Hitachi Ultrastar.  In Progress:  3D printed drive mounts, 4 2TB ultrastars in RAID 5.

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2 minutes ago, Phate.exe said:

Something like this could do the trick, especially if you put some more hot swap bays into the 5.25in expansion slots.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAD6F6A11487

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16817707340

 

I'm just making a bunch of drive cages on my 3d printer, and shoving them literally anywhere they'll fit for my Plex box.  It's only gonna have 4 drives in it (for now) though vs the 10 in yours.

Oh wow hot swappable and everything that's perfect. 8 bays is probably plenty. I have 4 4TB drives, I will probably start buying bigger drives rather than more smaller ones. 8TB drives are priced pretty good right now. 

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12 minutes ago, paperrobots said:

Oh wow hot swappable and everything that's perfect. 8 bays is probably plenty. I have 4 4TB drives, I will probably start buying bigger drives rather than more smaller ones. 8TB drives are priced pretty good right now. 

I've been hoarding those $30 refurbished 2TB Ultrastars, I've got two of them in my server right now, and am sitting on another 6 or so?  That will be going in once I decide to actually install my raid card and drive cages.

SFF-ish:  Ryzen 5 1600X, Asrock AB350M Pro4, 16GB Corsair LPX 3200, Sapphire R9 Fury Nitro -75mV, 512gb Plextor Nvme m.2, 512gb Sandisk SATA m.2, Cryorig H7, stuffed into an Inwin 301 with rgb front panel mod.  LG27UD58.

 

Aging Workhorse:  Phenom II X6 1090T Black (4GHz #Yolo), 16GB Corsair XMS 1333, RX 470 Red Devil 4gb (Sold for $330 to Cryptominers), HD6850 1gb, Hilariously overkill Asus Crosshair V, 240gb Sandisk SSD Plus, 4TB's worth of mechanical drives, and a bunch of water/glycol.  Coming soon:  Bykski CPU block, whatever cheap Polaris 10 GPU I can get once miners start unloading them.

 

MintyFreshMedia:  Thinkserver TS130 with i3-3220, 4gb ecc ram, 120GB Toshiba/OCZ SSD booting Linux Mint XFCE, 2TB Hitachi Ultrastar.  In Progress:  3D printed drive mounts, 4 2TB ultrastars in RAID 5.

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