Any affordable cases that can hold 14 HDDs and 3 SSDs?
My unRAID server has 12 data drives, 2 parity drives, and 3 SSD cache pools. Plus dual Xeons on a SuperMicro ATX board.
I currently have the Deep Silence 5 case by Nanoxia. But things are cramped. I’ve filled all the standard drive bays, plus put in a 4-bay 5.25 enclosure. But I still have one of the SSDs just floating around.
What would a better case to put all this stuff in?
This looks like a good(?) way to have lots of drives connected to one machine: github.com/trapexit/…/Real-World-DeploymentsI don’t have any experience like this, I have the CS380 with standard loadout… just thought it was a funny way to add lots more drives.
I got an old atx case off craigslist with 9 5.25” hotswap bays and put in 3x 5bay hotswap cages in the front. plenty of room for the smaller SSDs inside
Came with a free i5 system and a 1050ti I use for transcoding.
This was my thought as well. Most cases could fit 14 hdds and 3 ssds if you don’t put anything else in them and don’t actually mount the drives to racks/bays.
The problem that I find is that most cases only say they support x drives, but with some additional (official) drive cages can support more, but stuff like PC Part Picker doesn’t show that, so hard to search that way.
I would put that in your original post next time. It’s hard to know what kind of things to recommend if we don’t know what you have already looked at. Knowing that there are standard ways of increasing drive count (such as the 4x drive pay you are using now). You can search by internal drive count and reduce your search significantly.
That said I think the fractal design 7 xl looks good.
I bought the Deep Silence around $180. So maybe $250 or so/less? Flexible. Definitely not Storinator prices (though I wish they sold the chassis separate).
The fractal design 7 xl might give you what you want, but at $200 + 5x drive cage kits at $20 each + upgrading and maxing out the fans ~$100, you’re looking at closer to $400, and there are mixed reviews on how well it can keep your drives cool.
Once you get above 10-12 drives, you’re going to need to look at enterprise gear, or building a custom solution. There just isn’t much consumer hardware at that level.
Findings: annual failure rates seem to not depend on temperature at all between about 30°C and 45°C, with failure rates increasing both above and below that temperature range.
Findings: annual failure rates seem to scale linearly with average drive temperature, roughly doubling from 5% at 32°C to 10% at 43°C. Variation in drive temperature seems to have a small, but negligible, negative effect.
Findings: Temperature seems to have no effect on annual failure rates, but average temperatures of drives in study were between 21°C and 31°C, so their conclusions are not that helpful.
The 2013 paper unfortunately is stuck behind a paywall, but message me if you would like to read it.
My suggestion given the work in the field would be to keep temperatures around 30°C if you can because at higher temperatures, you could be reducing the lifespan of your drives.
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