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Your correct Rajahal. I did not realize the angle was an issue. I was able to place the rear drive as Neil did but I didn't realize till he posted the picture that the front drive could sit forward like that. I was going to order a card to support drive 7. I was going to order a card from Monoprice. I don't think the heat will be much of an issue for two 3.5s on the top but 4 might be much. My current drives are all 5400 and 5900. Only 7200 is the 2.5 500g black.

I was looking for a 4 bay raid device when I came across Unraid and your build. This post inspired me and 4 weeks ago I went and bought the same Microserver. I basically duplicated the entire build with 8tb of storage and a 500 WD black drive for cache. Bios has been hacked and everything runs well. Before putting in the drive tray in the spare bay I was playing with drive layouts and was able to place 2 3.5 drives sideways on a diagonal with the interface up so it can be cabled. Only reason I was messing around was because the license allows for one more drive. Did you give any thought to a 7th drive or did the power supply concern you? I was thinking of modifying the top left inner cage so i could lay the drives flat.