February 23, 201610 yr I'm building out a new 2 in 1 (Unraid and Napp-it in separate VMs) storage server and need to find a rackmount chassis that will house all the HDDs and SSDs I'll be using. I need 12+ x 3.5" hot swap bays and room for 4 x 2.5" SSDs. I'd prefer not just throw the SSDs in some empty area of the case as these will be high performance SSDs and I'd like them to get proper cooling so I want a case that is built to house them whether it be internally or externally in hot swaps. I'm having trouble finding something that can hold the combo of 12 x 3.5" and 4 x 2.5" drives. Looking for any suggestions.
February 24, 201610 yr Get a 16 x 3.5" drive chassis and use adapters for the SSDs? Norco has various chassis that will hold 16 or more 3.5" drives.
February 25, 201610 yr Could always get something like a RPC-4216 and put 4 x 2.5" cages in one (or both) of the 5.25" bays if you don't want to use drive adapters for the SSDs.
February 25, 201610 yr Author Get a 16 x 3.5" drive chassis and use adapters for the SSDs? Norco has various chassis that will hold 16 or more 3.5" drives. Could always get something like a RPC-4216 and put 4 x 2.5" cages in one (or both) of the 5.25" bays if you don't want to use drive adapters for the SSDs. I'm leaning towards something like this case from iStarUSA. I really like their trayless offerings as it makes swapping out drives a breeze and I don't have roo for more than 23" depth chassis.
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