Yes, you indeed got a VERY good chassis.    As I noted, I've been tempted by some of those deals -- but I simply don't need it and have managed to resist the impulse [at least so far  ].

 

Yes, one of the nice things about the Norco's is the ability to swap out the fans, something I have found is not so simple to do on the Supermicro's not to mention the fans in the host swap power supplies are not changeable I believe, so certainly more flexibility in the Norco cases.

Pretty loud, I have it in my small office sitting next to me, eventually I want to move it out of my office but I need to make room for it. I have an older Intel motherboard in it, model  S5500HCV and it has two quad core E5620's in it along with 48GB of ECC RAM. It all came as a package, I found it on eBay for a stupid price.

How many TB do you have with your drives?

Total is 107TB

Total is 107TB

Cool, will you then gradually upgrade disks as needed?

Yes, right now the majority of my disks are 3TB, I'd like to upgrade those next from 3-4 or 3-5 depending on the cost of the disks, but as you know, the nice thing about unRAID as I can do them one at a time on my own schedule.

Yes, right now the majority of my disks are 3TB, I'd like to upgrade those next from 3-4 or 3-5 depending on the cost of the disks, but as you know, the nice thing about unRAID as I can do them one at a time on my own schedule.

Solid, especially with prices becoming cheaper. That's why I'm a UnRaid user, being able to upgrade one at a time! I'd do either 5tb or 6tb disks if you can afford it. Maybe put the older disks in a a backup server.

The 3TB disks I want to replace were previously in a NAS and need to be retired. I'd consider 6TB disks it just depends on where the better price point is.

The 3TB disks I want to replace were previously in a NAS and need to be retired. I'd consider 6TB disks it just depends on where the better price point is.

Yep, I'd look on PCPartpicker at the price per GB.