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Yes, but given that I’ve already got everything installed and running, I’m not looking to upgrade unless it’s significant. A bigger case that’s still 9 5.25” bays isn’t really worth the effort to me to have to move everything over, but if I could find one with 12 bays at a good price then I’d probably get one. I’m also in Canada so the e-bay selection is a little slimmer, and shipping a full tower from the US is more than I’d like to spend right now. Lots of other good suggestions in this thread and elsewhere, but all the cases that appeal to me are discontinued, and used models seem to not very available, I guess due to their appeal for people that are looking for those kinds of cases for NAS type builds. I’m currently at 9 3.5” drives, in one 5in3 and the stock 4in3 cages, plus a 2.5” cache SSD taped to the bottom of the case, so I’ve still got 2 empty 5.25” bays available which should last me a little while yet. Guess I’ll keep checking Facebook marketplace and hope someone want to get rid of a big, old case at a good price.

I’m kind of in the same boat. Lucked into a Coolermaster Centurion 590 when I was building my rig last year, everything fits but it’s pretty tight with the cables. Right now I’ve got a 5in3 and the stock 4in3 cage. I’m kind of okay with the internal cages rather than hot-swap, given the price difference, but I’d like a little more space, the back panel needs a hard shove to get it closed, and even my tiny hands have trouble getting everything plugged in, my last upgrade took a couple tries since I kept having SATA data and power cables come loose, or just not go in tight as I was getting them all connected. Something EATX size(just for space, not that I need an E-ATX board) with 12 optical bays would be perfect, or something with like 6 5.25” and a bunch more 3.5”/2.5” bays. I’ve seen a few locally, but always some major flaw like the HDD bays don’t have fan mounts, or there’s a solid cover over the 5.25” bays that would restrict airflow to my cage. Few that have lots of 3.5” bays, but not a 5.25” bay which I want for ripping media when I can. Server cases are just too big a price jump.

Just started using UnRaid a couple months ago because I was looking for something more budget friendly, configurable and higher performance, than off the shelf NAS units. It's also my first time building a PC. I was a little sceptical if it would be simple enough for me to manage, friends said they'd tried doing similar things with Linux and decided that the effort to configure and manage everything made them go back to off the shelf solutions. The support and encouragement I received from the UnRaid community, mostly r/UnRaid, has made the experience much easier than I was expecting. While I was originally just looking for NAS storage with redundancy, I've since got a Plex server running and offloaded uTorrent from my iMac to UnRaid. While I do find myself spending more time managing my server than I expected, it's because I keep finding new and exciting things I can use it for. Thanks to everybody who contributes to this wonderful software and it's amazing community.