With, or without, buying additional 3.5" cages to swap into 5.25" bays?Can anyone recommend a tower chassis that will hold 12+ 3.5" drives?
The Cooler Master Cosmos 2 will hold, I believe, one dozen drives, internally, in three spots. 2 in one place, 4 or 5 in another, and 5 or 6 in another. For a total of like 12.Can anyone recommend a tower chassis that will hold 12+ 3.5" drives?
There are quite a few cases that have 6 or 8 internal drives, and then space enough to hold 4-6 more if you convert the external 5.25" bays to 3.5" cages. But by the time you do that, you'll be spending as much, or more, than if you just bought the Antec. The Antec looks like it's in stock at Newegg.I dont mind adding a enclosure.
I've got a Fractal Design Define XL R2. ...
This is a headless server that sits in a closet, so I don't really use the front/top panel ports. The boot drives are a pair of low profile Cruzer Fits. One sits in the on-board port of the X10SL7-F, the other in a back port. I'm not sure I've ever used the front ports. Anytime I would normally need to use a USB drive for something else, like flashing the on-board HBA, I just use the virtual USB drive function of IPMI.How do you like having all the connections and such on the top like that? Do you have your USB boot drive(s) there?
Just like philiplu I also use Fractal Design Define XL R2 with extra cage, total of 16 HDD's capacity.
Nice - I haven't actually installed the rear drive cage in mine yet. How do the drive temps compare between the front 8 and back 4 drives?