Hey Guys,
I'm considering putting my hand together at building a custom 8 bay mini-itx NAS chassis by re-using parts from older server equipment. I am currently looking at the HP ML350e series as it has a 4xLFF removable cage, however they aren't readily available in my area, thus shipping would kill the deal.
Looking for suggestions on other chassis with similar configurations, from looking at the ML350e for example, it would be quite easy with the right tools to modify the top bay to take a 2nd 4xLFF cage/backplane. Equally open to a server with a single 8xLFF cage/backplane (that isn't 4 wide on the 3.5" disk width), but that seems to be a pretty rare beast.
Suggestions ?
I'm considering putting my hand together at building a custom 8 bay mini-itx NAS chassis by re-using parts from older server equipment. I am currently looking at the HP ML350e series as it has a 4xLFF removable cage, however they aren't readily available in my area, thus shipping would kill the deal.
Looking for suggestions on other chassis with similar configurations, from looking at the ML350e for example, it would be quite easy with the right tools to modify the top bay to take a 2nd 4xLFF cage/backplane. Equally open to a server with a single 8xLFF cage/backplane (that isn't 4 wide on the 3.5" disk width), but that seems to be a pretty rare beast.
Suggestions ?