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Server expansion: Rackmount case

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  • #2
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,094 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Gardai be calling round to your gaff thinking its a growhous soon enough Seph :pac:


  • #3
    smuggler.ie
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    ED E wrote: »
    Gardai be calling round to your gaff thinking its a growhous soon enough Seph :pac:
    Have witnessed scene where door was kicked-in in 30 seconds after doorbell.
    SweeD :D
    history of boards 2021




  • #4
    deceit
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    ED E wrote: »
    Gardai be calling round to your gaff thinking its a growhous soon enough Seph :pac:
    This happened to my house a few years ago as had 10 servers in the attic :p:D


  • #5
    btkm8unsl0w5r4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,251 ✭✭✭btkm8unsl0w5r4


    I have one of these, takes 15 drive bays, you can put in any fans you want, its a standard enough case. I have one would sell it to you for 50 euro if you collect.

    https://www.scan.co.uk/products/4u-standard-chassis-supports-15x-35-hdd-2x-front-accessible-usb-ports


  • #6
    Serephucus
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    ED E wrote: »
    Gardai be calling round to your gaff thinking its a growhous soon enough Seph :pac:

    If I decide to pickup a few R710s to screw around with ESXi a bit more, I may have to watch for this.
    Rohan Warm Armchair wrote: »
    I have one of these, takes 15 drive bays, you can put in any fans you want, its a standard enough case. I have one would sell it to you for 50 euro if you collect.

    https://www.scan.co.uk/products/4u-standard-chassis-supports-15x-35-hdd-2x-front-accessible-usb-ports

    Cheers. How do the HDDs mount? Looks like they're tool-less, but not hot-swap. Correct? If that's the case, I think I'll pass. Hot-swap is more expensive, but this case should last me the foreseeable future (at least for a storage box).


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  • #7
    btkm8unsl0w5r4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,251 ✭✭✭btkm8unsl0w5r4


    Serephucus wrote: »
    If I decide to pickup a few R710s to screw around with ESXi a bit more, I may have to watch for this.



    Cheers. How do the HDDs mount? Looks like they're tool-less, but not hot-swap. Correct? If that's the case, I think I'll pass. Hot-swap is more expensive, but this case should last me the foreseeable future (at least for a storage box).

    Not in hot swap caddies, but your looking at huge money for a case with 10+ hot swap caddies with lights.


  • #8
    Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    Rohan Warm Armchair wrote: »
    Not in hot swap caddies, but your looking at huge money for a case with 10+ hot swap caddies with lights.

    I was looking at a company in England before for a rackmount watercooled PC, they are pretty cheap all things considered. Edit, lol see it in the OP's post.

    If you have 3 decent airflow 120mm fans and a cpu cooler, you don't need the small fans at the rear. They are there for more directed airflow over heatsink only server boards.


  • #9
    btkm8unsl0w5r4
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    Cuddlesworth wrote: »
    I was looking at a company in England before for a rackmount watercooled PC, they are pretty cheap all things considered. Edit, lol see it in the OP's post.

    If you have 3 decent airflow 120mm fans and a cpu cooler, you don't need the small fans at the rear. They are there for more directed airflow over heatsink only server boards.

    SAS backplanes are cool but its a bit of a faff, you would need a sas controller card to get it to flash which drive is faulty, if not it offers nothing over a closed case.


  • #10
    Serephucus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,181 ✭✭✭Serephucus


    That's actually one of the cases I was looking at, Cuddles. :P

    I think I'll go with one of theirs. I'd love to be able to use standard fans with those hot-swap holders. From the video on their site, it looks like they do just use standard fans internally, and the cable just routes into a little silo to hold it in place. Only thing is those look like 30mm thick fans, so I don't know how they'd handle 25mm ones.

    An Fitz, appreciate the advice, but I am actually using a SAS HBA in my server at the minute, so it's something like this I'm looking at vs. a desktop tower. Even then, I'd be looking at something with 5.25 bays top to bottom (which pretty much doesn't exist any more) so I could put 3-to-5-bay hot-swaps in there, in which case you're into more money than this rackmount anyway.


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