September 5, 20232 yr Long story friends. My Data Hoarding is becoming an issue with the wife and I. Sadly, cant stop, wont stop. Currently have a very nice cube tower from Fractal Design. Housing a mini ATX with a Radan 5, 2 SSD Cache Drive and 10 3.5 WD Reds. I am maxing out on space with my 3.5 Reds. Use purposes have changed, using the cache for a lot more locally needed data, video editing, etc. I use other machines on my LAN to access those files and do the edits. As far as the 3.5's go, I would like to add more drives and then slowly upgrade lower capacity WD Reds. I would like to move to a rack instead of the Fractal Tower. I also would love to not break the bank on the racks, chassis, etc. Money better used for new Reds and an eventual motherboard, CPU upgrade. So..... Brand new at Server Racks and Chassis build out. Have done a bunch of towers. Looking to have one rack with the current ATX board, CPU, Memory and the Cache Drives. Connect this to a HD Rack for the 10 drives with extra empty bays. I know I can spend hours trying to figure this out, going back and forth from the Forums to NewEgg, etc. End of the day I trust this community and know I am not the smartest one. Thank you for your time and suggestions.
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