After years of having my home lab in a hand built crazy chassis I finally moved into a new home where I had room for the 6ft tall server Rack I've had in storage since college.
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I bit the bullet and bought a Norco RPC-4224 off amazon to house the 24 3.5" drives.
I've recently had a number of drives seem to fail (running Unraid) after testing those drives after replacing them, I'm not sure the drives really failed. I think the Norco backplane is just kinda trash and dropping power or such (I've seen a number of other threads discussing similar issues).
Searching around for a replacement backplane it seems thats pretty much unobtainium...
Can anyone recommend a chassis I could truly rely on? I need something that...
1) Is "affordable" for a home lab.
less than $1k, ideally less than $600/700
2) at least 24x 3.5" Hot SATA swap bays. I'd take more...
I have no intention of truly hot swapping drives I just want to be able to replace a failing drive without taking the thing out of the rack and/or having to open up the case.
3) Support standard ATX motherboard (I'm running a Ryzen 3950x at the moment)
4) Supports a standard ATX power supply
I already have a Corsair AX1200i
5) Supports full height PCI slots
If you're curious check out the tail end of this post.
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I bit the bullet and bought a Norco RPC-4224 off amazon to house the 24 3.5" drives.
I've recently had a number of drives seem to fail (running Unraid) after testing those drives after replacing them, I'm not sure the drives really failed. I think the Norco backplane is just kinda trash and dropping power or such (I've seen a number of other threads discussing similar issues).
Searching around for a replacement backplane it seems thats pretty much unobtainium...
Can anyone recommend a chassis I could truly rely on? I need something that...
1) Is "affordable" for a home lab.
less than $1k, ideally less than $600/700
2) at least 24x 3.5" Hot SATA swap bays. I'd take more...
I have no intention of truly hot swapping drives I just want to be able to replace a failing drive without taking the thing out of the rack and/or having to open up the case.
3) Support standard ATX motherboard (I'm running a Ryzen 3950x at the moment)
4) Supports a standard ATX power supply
I already have a Corsair AX1200i
5) Supports full height PCI slots