Here is the question, what chassis can you not find?
I was looking over at Newegg for a 4U chassis. What I am trying to do is get a "quiet" 120mm fan powered 4U to fit a decent number (10+) of both 2.5" and 3.5" drives and fit an EATX motherboard. Of course, I could get a Norco RPC-4224 but I was hoping for higher density since I can use 4-in-1 or 6-in-1 5.25" converters. I saw the RPC-4216 for $329 (16 3.5" and two 5.25") but if I add two 4-in-1's that brings me to $430-500 and still only 24 drives. For that price, it is less expensive to get a RPC-4224. I also saw the iStar D-410-B10SA for $390 but that has only 10x 3.5" drives (four 5.25" though) so again, price way over the RPC-4224 and not much higher density.
Big driver of the above is I want to create a mixed storage + SSD box so that if I were to colo it, I could do one backup array and one SSD array for hot data. 3U would be OK too if it had a decent mix. Seems like you can do 8x 3.5" and 2x 5.25" in that config.
The other one I want is a small micro ATX enclosure with 8x hot swap 3.5" drive slots (can be non-rack mount) and room for SSDs or a small mATX enclosure with 16 SSD slots. Found a seller in china, but $250+ each for the 8-drive variant.
Application - Small home backup appliance that I could use for DAS or NAS.
With that in mind, posing the question to others, what server chassis can you not find.
I was looking over at Newegg for a 4U chassis. What I am trying to do is get a "quiet" 120mm fan powered 4U to fit a decent number (10+) of both 2.5" and 3.5" drives and fit an EATX motherboard. Of course, I could get a Norco RPC-4224 but I was hoping for higher density since I can use 4-in-1 or 6-in-1 5.25" converters. I saw the RPC-4216 for $329 (16 3.5" and two 5.25") but if I add two 4-in-1's that brings me to $430-500 and still only 24 drives. For that price, it is less expensive to get a RPC-4224. I also saw the iStar D-410-B10SA for $390 but that has only 10x 3.5" drives (four 5.25" though) so again, price way over the RPC-4224 and not much higher density.
Big driver of the above is I want to create a mixed storage + SSD box so that if I were to colo it, I could do one backup array and one SSD array for hot data. 3U would be OK too if it had a decent mix. Seems like you can do 8x 3.5" and 2x 5.25" in that config.
The other one I want is a small micro ATX enclosure with 8x hot swap 3.5" drive slots (can be non-rack mount) and room for SSDs or a small mATX enclosure with 16 SSD slots. Found a seller in china, but $250+ each for the 8-drive variant.
Application - Small home backup appliance that I could use for DAS or NAS.
With that in mind, posing the question to others, what server chassis can you not find.