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I'd think twice about building an unraid server with one of these cases as I found drive temps (50 - 60C) to be an issue due to the airflow around the drives not being good. The case is designed to be in a cold air conditioner server room with powerful cooling (& noisy) fans.

Yeah. The case has some pretty heavy duty blowers by default which must force some air through, but I think the xserve case has been designed to be in an air conditioned rack in a a sound proofed room or cupboard... Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

Yep the backplanes were removed. I think the issue was poor airflow through the drove caddies. Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

I actually nodded an old apple xserve raid case into an unraid server with data drives earlier this year. I didn't bother keeping the backplane. I just used long data cables. Not as elegant but it worked OK. The real issue was heat. Even with the fans sucking the air through and some fans blowing air onto the front of the case the drives were getting up 60 degrees centigrade when active vs. 30 degrees centigrade in the case I normally used. Because of the heat issue I scraped the project and went with a 4ru antec server case I got off of eBay for $30. Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

Jriver is another software company that tracks bugs through their forum.

Reboot your server and they will reappear Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2