FS: Supermicro SAS/SATA drive cage

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NetWise

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I've actually been looking for one of these.... And now notice the + and the 'Enhanced Extended'. Any information on what that means in terms of case selection? I'll go google now but seems prudent to ask here. If I can still find an appropriate case I'm interested.
 

chinesestunna

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I've actually been looking for one of these.... And now notice the + and the 'Enhanced Extended'. Any information on what that means in terms of case selection? I'll go google now but seems prudent to ask here. If I can still find an appropriate case I'm interested.
Yea, wish I did the same :) Basically it's about 1.5" taller above the I/O shield. From my research there's 2 routes: Supermicro chassis that supports EE-ATX (Rev K according to the product page) or some larger full tower enthusiast cases, Lian-Li have a couple of E-ATX cases, the PC-A77 and PC-A7010 specifically.
My issue was that I have a Lian Li v2000 case and there's a hard plate that separates the case into heatzones and blocks any extra board space above the i/o plate. Ironically I looked at my Antec P280 and it was fine height wise due to the additional cooling/fans up top but wasn't wide enough...
 
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chinesestunna

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Yep, one thing I did find is that HPTX cases should work, its bigger and seem to have wider adoption outside of server circles so more info. I seem to recall some folks going that route for EE-ATX