Budget small (ish) case for a nas.

Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨pineapple@lemmy.ml⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

I’m building up a new home server and the hardest thing for me to find is a case. It needs at least 4 3.5 inch hard drive bays and compatibility with micro-atx motherboards. At the moment the current options I’ve looked at are:

3d printing a case, although I really don’t have time for this.
The lian-lee dan-a3. This case seems really good although it only has 3 3.5 inch bays so I would need to hack in some more by 3d printing extra mounts or something.

Aside from that I havn’t really found anything super good.

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Shadow@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Fractal design, node case. One of them is a cube that takes 8x 3.5 and microatx. I used one for years and it was great.

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- pineapple@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yes the node 804 is exactly what I’m looking for! It’s a bit outdated in terms of looks but I don’t really mind that much for a home server. Aside from that it seams pretty much perfect.
  
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- DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  +1 for Fractal Design Node cases. I’ve used the 304 (it’s Mini ITX, Mini DTX) for years as a NAS case and I love it!
  
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SheeEttin@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I have the Jonsbo N3 and I’ve been happy with it. The N2 should do you just fine.

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a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
This isn’t exactly what you asked for but just in case it might interest you; I ordered this Aoostar WTR Pro recently to replace an Odroid that died on me. It has an intel N150 and lets you install whatever OS you want. I’m pretty happy with it so far.

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Lazhward@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I use a Thermaltake Core V21. It holds 5 HDDs and you can hang hard drives from the top mesh panel holding up to 10-12 or so total.

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Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Small nas and any size case for compute?

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