I'm just in the preliminary steps of a slightly deranged mod and, before I buy any parts, I want to figure out if it's possible at all.
Putting it simply, if there's remotely enough clearance after shuffling some things around, I'm looking into increasing the capacity of an SC836 to 20 hot-swap bays instead of 16 (and possibly replacing the internal fan frame to use 2x 120mm or 2x 140mm instead of 3x 80mm). Either by mounting a standard ATX/STX PSU completely internally (as found on some other server cases) to use the room normally taken by the supermicro PSUs (and the ~2" unused between them and the motherboard) or by repurposing the room taken by 6 of the pci slots.
Would anyone with a 836 be willing to take some measurements? Here's what I'd need (numbered 1 to 6)
Putting it simply, if there's remotely enough clearance after shuffling some things around, I'm looking into increasing the capacity of an SC836 to 20 hot-swap bays instead of 16 (and possibly replacing the internal fan frame to use 2x 120mm or 2x 140mm instead of 3x 80mm). Either by mounting a standard ATX/STX PSU completely internally (as found on some other server cases) to use the room normally taken by the supermicro PSUs (and the ~2" unused between them and the motherboard) or by repurposing the room taken by 6 of the pci slots.
Would anyone with a 836 be willing to take some measurements? Here's what I'd need (numbered 1 to 6)