March 15, 20188 yr After several years of struggling with a rat's nest of cables, etc. in my tower, I have decided to transplant my UnRaid server into a Rosewill server case I just ordered. It's the 12 bay hot swap model. If anyone using this case can give me any build pointers it would be great.
March 15, 20188 yr Don't worry about it if some of the lights don't work. Not all drives will work with the activity lights on that case after inserting any bay, give it a little extra push and a side to side wiggle. Don't tie up any cabling. Less cross talk that way.
March 16, 20188 yr I took the front cover off of mine to improve air flow and access. I also leave the top cover off as well.
March 16, 20188 yr Author Just got the case delivered.. The parts box has some metal shims. No mention in the manual or parts list. Are theses for mounting hard drives?
March 17, 20188 yr Author My Rosewill server build ended in disaster. Transferred the mother board, everything went fine. When I added 2 disks and inserted all (6) the molex power connectors it wouldn't boot. I disconnected all but the 2 to the cage where I had the 2 disks and it booted and recognized the disks, ok, maybe I need a heftier PSU. I went out and bought an 850 watt Cosair PSU and tried connecting all the molex connectors once again and same problem, no boot. I disconnected all but the 2 and then.... Smoke! Holy Crap! I immediately turned off the PSU. Result, my disks were fried. Fortunately they were old left overs that I had from when I upgraded my Unraid build with 2TB disks. I'm RMAing the server case back to Rosewill. Believe it or not, the new PSU and mother board survived the barbecue and are now back in my old Ubuntu tower chugging away. And my Unraid server is plugging away in its tower. Maybe I'll leave it well enough alone. But I'm a tinkerer so any other options for a 10-16 disk build? Edited March 17, 20188 yr by Woodpusherghd
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