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£75.59 at Scan under today only. Bought two for £154 delivered earlier this week. £113 for a 3tb.

Buy a cheap pci-e riser card and melt that, few $ or £ or E and no risk to M/B warranty. Buy a spacer so you can screw the card down same height as the riser. Simples.

Xclio Balack hawk 8/10 (£39.99 today only special at Scan over the holiday weekend) Pros - Big case, plenty of room. Lots of fans. 12 front accessible HDD bays (8 x 3.5 bays behind bottom two fans). Additional 3 x 5.25 bays at top for 4 or 5 more HDDs. 3 built in fan controllers (side, top and front). Holds 8 drives during parity to mid thirties (3 or 4 deg. typ. increase). Cons - Cable management is poor (couple of little cut outs, little space behind MB tray). No heatsink hole in MB tray. Fans are not filtered. HDDs arent hot swappable. Front fans a super fiddly. Manual says to be careful to not bend pinds but not how-to remove fans the correct way! Took me 4 hours to swap out the old cooler master titan case and build the new one. To Do: Re-orient PSU so cable exit is near rear of case. Should allow tidier cable management. Zip tie SATA cables. Take some pictures! Would I buy another? Yes at £40, but has a lot of serious competion at full price it is up against... Antec 900 Fractal Designs XL Xigmatek UTGuard Sharkoon Scorpio Antec Dark Fleet NZXT Tempest CM 690 CM Haf 922

Just bought one of these today only special at Scan (UK) £47 inc VAT and Shipping. http://www.scan.co.uk/products/xclio-blackhawk-full-tower-case-black-w-o-psu The two front fans hide two 4 bay HDD holders. Will post up some pics later this week when up and running.

These were tried previously and wouldnt work with unRaid. SIL3124 chipset is fine but unRaid wasnt able to recognize the PCIE bridge used on these cards.

Cooler Master CM iTower 930 After looking at Queegs miniTen server with envy I set about looking for a case with a similar design of two sets of three 5.25 bays. Surely someone had done it? Well they have, good looking too IMO, what more they stuck 4 hot swap bays in the middle for good measure. http://www.coolermaster.com/product.php?product_id=6 http://www.coolermaster.com/upload/product/6/featured/top1.jpg?1589907198 http://www.coolermaster.com/upload/product/6/featured/top4.jpg?1722199912

The cases in this thread are cases people like, use or considered when setting up their current or next UnRaid server. There is no requirement that they must hold 20 plus drives. Few cases come with adaptors, unless you look at Norco custom designed disk array style cases. 3-2,4-3, 5-3 style adaptors are available from several companies. With your current situation, back to basics. Do all drives identify at "power on" reliably? no look at power supply. PSU splitters if you have then should be thoroughly checked (power down the system). Pull on each side of the splitter the cable on the other side should move the same and consistent amount if it doesnt it is making a bad contact. This can often be fixed by squeezing the sockets gently so they mate more firmly. Are the drives recording smart errors? UDMA_CRC_Error_Count numbers usually indicate a cabling error. However these could be from a previous problem so ensure they are still being recorded for the drive in question. Cable lengths. Try to keep all cables as short as possible. If a cable is suspect, cut it up. They are cheap to buy, dont leave it laying around. Chances are you will re-use it and re-introduce errors. This applies to backplanes as well. Are all the drives giving issue furthest from the data plug? Try moving them closer to the data socket. Post up a sys log and we'll take a look and offer advice.

I'm sure it must have been posted but the R3's big brother is now shipping. http://www.fractal-design.com/?view=product&category=2∏=54 Fractal cases are the nearest thing there is to case porn. BTW you want the R3 version with foam fan covers and 1300RPM fans, not the R2 for UnRaid ig going little brother.

Wild card, run an external enclosure like this one? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/COPIER-ENCLOSURE-DVD-DUPLICATOR-CASE-POWER-N5Dx-13-BAY-/260698381564?pt=UK_Collectables_HardDriveEnclosures_RL&hash=item3cb2d59cfc

I like the look of these...might order one to see if it will fit in a 5 bay HDD enclosure. Ebay ID 220626683956