Looking for a 1u Redundant PSU Chassis with 2 x 2.5 bays

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nexox

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Seems alright, no PCIe riser though, that would be something like $20 including the bracket, and it looks like pretty much the same footprint as the 815, so all you have to gain is potentially lower noise from the blowers, which look like they may need a duct or shroud to direct air properly.
 

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Searching for 813 stuff on ebay lead me by accident to these: LOT OF 2 01-SC813A2-XX00C002 SuperMicro 3.5” SAS/SATA Hot Swap Hard Drive Tray | eBay

I can't understand Supermicro drive tray part numbers, but those look like the type that fit 815 or 813 chassis and have the extra two holes which make it easy to use a 3D printed or sheet metal adapter, rather than one of the variety that extended the SATA connector electrically so the SSD doesn't interfere with the 3.5" hole locations.
 

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Alright I found something maybe better: SC113MFAC2-R804CB | 1U | Chassis | Products | Supermicro

This is the redundant PSU, 2.5" version of the louder chassis I have that I thought was an 815 but which is actually an 813, cheapest way I have found so far to acquire one involves buying an entire dual e5 v4 system and adding some trays: Supermicro CSE-113M X10DRL-iT 1U Server 2x Intel Xeon E5-2683v4 No RAM DDR4 | eBay

I can probably run my 813 tomorrow for a noise level comparison with the 815, I did just get a pair of CPUs for the 813 in the mail today...

Edit: pretty sure this is a similar chassis, with trays and an even more useless board/cpu, but cheaper: SUPERMICRO CSE-113MTQ-R400CB X9DRL-7F 2x E5-2620V2 2.1GHZ 64GB 1U Server | eBay
 
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VirtualBacon

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Oh yeah, that does look like a decent chassis. A lot of my objections is just that there are a ton of drive bays on the front, only 2 of which would be used

I could probably use the 2 on the far right, and then 3D print some kind of cover to go in place of the left ones, that would be pretty cool
 

nexox

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I'm sure you can print individual covers for the bays, with vents for air intake - usually they'd be partly blocked off to help cool the bays with drives installed, but SATA SSDs don't really need that, may as well help cool the rest of the system.