April 5, 201115 yr Happened to stumble upon this and though I'd share: NORCO RPC-4020 4U Rackmount Server Chassis w/ 20 Hot-swappable SATA/SAS 6G Drive Bay $299.99 - $30.00 + $9.99 shipping = $279.98 Promo Code: NTX10
April 5, 201115 yr Happened to stumble upon this and though I'd share: NORCO RPC-4020 4U Rackmount Server Chassis w/ 20 Hot-swappable SATA/SAS 6G Drive Bay $299.99 - $30.00 + $9.99 shipping = $279.98 Promo Code: NTX10 Interesting. They're running the same 10% off on the RPC-4224 as well. More interestingly; however, is the fact that I JUST NOW caught that the 4220 is 6Gb compatible drive bays. Well... hmm. This may just change things for my second build. 8 less TB in favor of 6Gb... decisions, decisions.
April 5, 201115 yr As I understand it, SATA III (6 GB/s) won't actually make your server any faster with today's drives. Only SSDs are fast enough to need so much bandwidth, and as far as I know nobody has build a server out of SSDs yet (though some day I plan to....). So getting a SATA III capable server with future, faster drives in mind isn't necessarily a bad thing, but you won't notice any tangible benefit today. So personally, I would just choose based on whether you need 20 or 24 bays.
April 18, 201115 yr Per http://www.norcotek.com/item_detail.php?categoryid=1&modelno=RPC-4224 the 4224 case is 6G compatible as well. "Drive Bay: 24 x hot-swappable SATA/SAS 6G drive bays"
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