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Good tower cases for home storage servers? (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by sylfy@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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Hi guys, I’m looking to set up a couple of tower servers for both storage and compute, and am looking at a setup that looks something like this:

Epyc 7713 (potentially single or dual processor) + motherboard, should be EATX

12-16 3.5”HDD

HBA card

Potentially 1x 4090

I would like to know if there are any recommendations with such a setup or potential issues in a tower case, and good tower cases that could fit?

I currently have a Fractal Define 7 XL with a Ryzen 5950X, 3090 and 12 3.5” HDD in there, so I’m fairly confident that the setup above should be able to fit as well, but I would like to know if there are better recommendations out there, as well as a potential for fitting more than 12 drives in a case.

My main limitation right now is that the setup should be air cooled and not too noisy, hence I’m probably not looking at a rack setup right now.

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[–] nolo_me@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Where's your bar for "not too noisy"? I have a rack case and the disks are the loudest things in it.

[–] SirLagz@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

I'm using an old thermaltake case right now for one of my PCs. Can hold at least 14 hdds, more with some better hotswap bays, but its a tallboi case

[–] jmagahh@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Meshify 2 XL 💯