Who manufactures NAS Chassis for Asustor

[netmass]

Hi all,

Anybody know who manufactures the chassis for the Asustor AS-608T? I'd love to get my hands on one and put in some ECC, a better processor, and run ESXi with a FreeNAS guest (using most of the storage) and another guest that will utilize the features of FreeNAS shares.

The things that I'm looking for are: ZFS, LED Display, USB 3, desktop form factor, hot swap of at least 6 drives external. It looks like the perfect chassis for my needs but I don't need the Asus stuff.

Any thoughts appreciated!

- Steve

 

[Lordadmiral Drake]

Thats a proprietary case you're looking at here. So most likely the only way to get your hands on the case only is to buy a busted unit.

Also, USB 3 is still a no-go on FreeNAS and driving the display of the case may also not be possible.

You should rather try to get a miniITX or microATX case that has a nice design and hotswap bays

 

[netmass]

I figured that was the case (no pun intended ;). However... I find it a bummer. I have not found a good NASish looking MicroATX case. I'm sure they are out there. Lenovo has a great case... but its a full NAS unit. U-NAS does not have an LCD display and only sports UBS 2.0. Norco ITX-S4 only has 4 slots. Cenbro SR301 may be possible. Corsair Obsidian Series 250D doesn't appear to have Hot-Swap... Lian-Li and Fractal are contenders but look like servers more than NAS. Not sure what to think of istarusa and SansDigital. Will probably try something with Silverstone SST-DS380B unless I see a better option.

Anybody else have a chassis I missed?

 

[Lordadmiral Drake]

I'll tell you again your issue with USB isn't an issue at all because simply put: DON'T use USB3 with FreeNAS

It's disabled by default because in the current state its very likely to do nasty things to your data and system

 

[netmass]

Most excellent info on the USB3 for FreeNAS. Many thanks! However, the USB3 is not intended for the FreeNAS guest (running on top of ESXi).