4U Rackmount Server Chassis with 6 x 5.25 Front Bays + 1 x 3.5 + 4 x 2.5 Bays

Honestly one of the best cost effective cases I've seen. It's built really solidly.

Most importantly, the doors are REALLY hard to open. Yes it's unlocked, it's just they have a really secure hold in the closed position and my fingers are big enough that trying to grab the small spot they have to open them is impossible to get enough force to pull it open, I had to add zip ties through a ventilation slot on each door to create handles for when I need to open it. Part of the use of this is disc imaging so the doors will be accessed quite frequently on mine. I may even look at how to remove the doors entirely. Next problem, the cross bar over the motherboard can block graphics cards. With the increasing need for GPUs for AI processing and such, this is a problem. The graphics card I have is not especially tall, but side of the crossbar goes over the PCIe plug, if the plug or the crossbar were in slightly different positions it might fit while touching the card, but I wouldn't try it. Thankfully the structure still seems solid without the crossbar in place. The power LED and the activity LEDs appear to be backwards. When plugged into my motherboard as the case has labeled, the power LED flashes (red) and the activity LED is solid (blue). There are icons on the case however indicating which is power and which is activity so it's annoying that it is backwards. The case also has no instructions to indicate which wire is positive on each, though one has red & white so easy to guess that red is positive, the other has black and green which are both common negative colors resulting in guesswork, thankfully there's only 2 options. Back to the no instructions, it's not a big deal since it's just a case, however knowing what screws are intended for where, warnings about the crossbar being optional or necessary, information about the drive bays for how to configure for what drives, etc; all that information isn't present. Again, with experience most of it you can guess pretty quickly. One drive bay side does have built-in 5.25 to 3.25 reducers, but it looks like a PITA to try to use them, though in fairness that's true of pretty much all 5.25 to 3.25 reducers. For my need, I'm only putting opticals in the bays and the motherboard has NVMes. Overall, it's not a bad case for the money, but it's got some concerns to watch for.

Overall I like the case. It's not very deep, other server cases Ive bought are alot deeper. It's like a standard desktop case but put on it's side. It only has 2 smaller fans in the back where the CPU is. There are no front fans. The drive bays are a bit confusing and they really seem to focus on 5.25 inch bays, and only has a few 3.5/2.5 bays and they are in odd spots in my opinion. Either on the very bottom or the very top of the drive bay. I'd rather the drive bays just focus on 3.5 or 2.5 inch bays. Leave maybe 1 5.25 inch bay. This has like 6 5.25 inch bays. Might be ok if you have that, but I'm not sure who even uses those anymore. Anyways it would be a better product if they had reconfigured the drive bays and had better fan setup.

I used this with two five drive bay containers and passed the sas cable through from the server.

This rack mount CPU case is nothing short of great. Outside finish is good. Overall build quality in my opinion 7/10. Inside rails and mounts are on the sharp side. Used small file to smooth edges. I added additional fans for air circulation.

Pretty flimsy construction if I'm being honest. They say that you can install a 6 drive hdd chassis in the front, yet they provide no link to it. It should be included, but it isn't.

This case plus the 4bay hot-swap backplane sold by rack choice are the perfect option for a budget NAS build.

Very good design.