12 to 16 bay hot swappable tower

[FormerSynoUser]

Hi.  I'm looking to move on from Synology since they now require their drives.  I'd like a tower with 12-16 bays, hot swappable preferably.  Any suggestions for a case?  Also, as I'm unfamiliar with what's out there hardware wise for something like this, if anybody has any suggestions for motherboards to go with it, it would be greatly appreciated.  I was very interested in the Ryzen DS2422+ but it's not worth the vendor lock.  Thanks!

 

 

[whipdancer]

This might yield some ideas...
 

[Hoopster]

2 hours ago, FormerSynoUser said:

I'd like a tower with 12-16 bays, hot swappable preferably

Here are some suggestions.  Most not quite as large as you would like:

 

https://graphicscardhub.com/case-with-lots-of-hdd/

 

I have the Silverstone CS380 with 8 hot-swap 3.5" bays.  If you don't need the two 5.25" bays (I use them for an optical drive for MakeMKV and a 4 x 2.5" SSD hot-swap caddy), you can get another 3 x 3.5" caddy to occupy that space for 11 3.5" drives in the case.

 

At the bottom of the linked article there are links to larger cases such as the Fractal Define 7 XL that can hold up to 18 HDDs.

Edited December 15, 2021 by Hoopster

[peterg23]

Linus Sebastian did the following video on a Fractal Define 7 XL Unraid build back in March 2020.

(They eventually decided to use Unraid instead of Proxmox for this build).

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAy9N1vX76o

Edited December 16, 2021 by peterg23

[FormerSynoUser]

Thanks so much guys.  It's been so long since I even had to buy a controller card (MFM/RLL/IDE) days that I wasn't sure who would have the right stuff.  I really appreciate the advice!