Reddit reviews Rosewill 4U Server Chassis/Server Case/Rackmount Case, Metal Rack Mount Computer Case with 12 Hot Swap Bays & 5 Fans Pre-Installed (RSV-L4412)

$200 with rails:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0055EV30W/

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DGZ42SM/

https://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-RSV-R28LX-Bearing-Sliding-Rackmount/dp/B0795Y3QM3/

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Or $300 for 12 hot swap bays: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00N9CXGSO/ref=twister_B079C7QGNY

https://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-RSV-R28LX-Bearing-Sliding-Rackmount/dp/B0795Y3QM3/

Build your own

4u Case: https://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-Rackmount-Computer-Pre-Installed-RSV-R4000/dp/B00N9CXGSO/

Throw in 12 drives, a mobo/cpu/psu/ram, and bob's your uncle.

With ~$2000 as budget, you can find A LOT, if all you need is a JBOD.

Since you specified vertical I'm assuming you've already seen and dismissed Rosewill's offerings?

The top one is https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0055EV30W/ref=ppx_yo_mob_b_inactive_ship_o0_img?ie=UTF8&psc=1 housing an AMD Epyc 7281.

Underneath that is my NAS chassis, https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00N9CXGSO/ref=ya_aw_oh_bia_dp?ie=UTF8&psc=1.

They've been pretty solid. I replaced the fans with quieter ones. Same goes with my USG. The whole setup has a nice quiet hum 😊

I'd consider looking into the Rosewill RSV-4412 4U rack mount server chassis. Has ample space for a motherboard and has 12 drive bays :)

Potential alternative - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00N9CXGSO

You could use a server case. They would be perfectly flat and could be put on a shelf/used as one.

https://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-Rackmount-Computer-Pre-Installed-RSV-R4000/dp/B00N9CXGSO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1487828404&sr=8-1&keywords=rosewill%2Bserver%2Bcase&th=1

I feel your pain about Supermicro's EEATX standard. I misread it as EATX and purchased a used X9DR3-LN4F+ and stuffed in dual Intel Xeon E5-2670s with 192GB Samsung ECC PC3-12800R and then went to drop it into my Rosewill RSV-L4412 case...and...it extends into where the PSU goes. Crap.

I purchased some nylon risers to keep the top edge of the board from leaning too much, but it's not going anywhere and then I decided to order SFX-L SilverStone 700W PSU and it fits RIGHT in between the motherboard and the top of the case. I need to create a bracket for it, but it fits nicely above the board and will supply enough power for everything. Just gotta wait for the wires & connectors so I can make some custom cables, but this has been a sweet setup so far.

Picture (with SFX psu standing in/doing nothing): http://i.imgur.com/0NUvo64.jpg

Another picture: http://i.imgur.com/7Rpwg7V.jpg

Are you looking to build one from complete scratch, or are you looking to buy one that already has some of what you need(hdd trays, caddys, etc)?

for my last NAS build, I ended up getting myself a 4U chassis. A good one that I can recommend is the RSV-L4500 You can also pick something like the RSV-L4000 for something with a horizontal bay if you like. Or If you know that you want it full of Drives and are comfortable stopping at 12 hot swap bays, Rosewills RSV-L4412 would be ideal from the get go, as you wont need to replace the bays that it comes with at any point.

I ended up purchasing 3 3x5.25 to 5x3.5 bay hdd caddys for a total of 15 drives. Looks exactly like THIS

After you get the case, you can put the parts that you like in it. Just read what size motherboard fits, get an appropriate power supply for the number of drives you'll be using, get an HBA that does JBOD and can can connect to the number of drives you'll be getting, and you're good to go.

Specifically for freenas, you can put the OS on a USB and run it from there, however because Small USB tend to be hit or miss, i recommend a SATA DOM or two, plugged directly into the motherboard instead of via the HBA. Two if you want to mirror the OS. Remember, do not use any form of hardware raid when using freenas.



Edit: words.

I'd use this ($250) as your case. Throw in 4-5 4TB HDDs ($500), add other internals ($400 for cpu + ram + mobo + psu + cables). You still have $850 of budget to play around with after that

Okay cool. In that case, get a nice board that can use your CPU and RAM, and slap it into one of these cases. They have a version with all hot-swap bays too, but you can swap those out later on since they're modular.

I think they are trying to say it's more money/not possible to do it in a 1u as it's not designed for that and uses custom parts. You are on the right track but you just need a bigger case.

Certain tasks these old servers would be great for, but it sounds like this is something that will not work for your use case. You can still piece it together from cheap eBay parts, just get the 1u idea out of your head. Even 2u would be a more standard profile for regular sized PSU and room for GPU.

Why are you so set on 1u? I just got a 4u rosewill case and it's amazing and can accomplish all the things you want.

Rosewill 4U Server Chassis/Server Case/Rackmount Case, Metal Rack Mount Computer Case with 12 Hot Swap Bays & 5 Fans Pre-Installed (RSV-L4412) https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00N9CXGSO/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_YzGRCb06HGQQJ

Rosewill 4U Server Chassis/Server Case/Rackmount Case, Metal Rack Mount Computer Case with 12 Hot Swap Bays & 5 Fans Pre-Installed (RSV-L4412) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00N9CXGSO/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_xF1TDbFYBM5AG

Eeek... so that budget is going to be eaten up by just drives. NAS can use consumer drives... but it is far and away better to use drives designed to be in RAID. Otherwise you might spend more as multiple consumer drives die over time.

12-bay hot-swap 4u case: https://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-Rackmount-Computer-Pre-Installed-RSV-R4000/dp/B00N9CXGSO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1504592127&sr=8-2&keywords=rosewill%2B4u%2Bcase&th=1

15-bay non-hot-swap 4u case: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0091IZ1ZG/ref=psdc_572238_t1_B00BQY3916

You could look for craigslist deals for NAS - but they usually use SFF (2.5" 10-16k rpm) SAS drives. Also can be loud.

This is the one I got. It's got hot swap drives up front with decent sized fans pulling air through the front with a filter on the cover. But I'm sure other have good suggestions too. I think I've got 9 drives in it at the moment.

Rosewill 4U Server Chassis / Server Case / Rackmount Case, Metal Rack Mount Computer Case with 12 Hot Swap Bays & 5 Fans Pre-Installed (RSV-L4412) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00N9CXGSO/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_zfnLzb5T6KE30

Thanks to your recommendation I'm now looking at the roswell 12 bay hotswappable case. I quite like hotswappable cases as they make life easy.

Would I simply buy the optiplex and stick the hardware in there and it would work out of the box?

Sounds quite appealing, if it's the case.

Here is a link to the case: https://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-Rackmount-Computer-Pre-Installed-RSV-L4500/dp/B00N9CXGSO?th=1

EDIT: Would there be any problem in using 10TB HDDs? I know sometimes drives of high capacity create some problems.

Can't help you about the UK, but I bought one of these cases (also available at Amazon)
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16811147233
and I took off the rack flanges, and use it as a tower no problems.

Amazon Link

Video of it running on youtube

Just picked up two of these guys, upgrading my parity drives of 3TB to these in unRAID.

I have the Rosewill 4U 12 Hotswap bay case and these drives worked without any modification. The case uses molex connectors to the HDD bays.

RSV-L4411 I'm pretty sure, and I'm not sure what the difference is between that one and the newer version:

http://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-Thickness-Rackmount-Black-RSV-L4411/dp/B0091IZ2L4/ref=pd_sim_sbs_pc_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=183SZX6JQVAQC25VQCX1


http://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-Thickness-Rackmount-Hot-Swap-RSV-L4412/dp/B00N9CXGSO/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1415704197


It was also on sale for $200 when I purchased it.

I got this: Rosewill 4U Server Chassis / Server Case / Rackmount Case, Metal Rack Mount Computer Case with 12 Hot Swap Bays & 5 Fans Pre-Installed (RSV-L4412) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00N9CXGSO/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_n5QfzbMQAZH8M

It's a little pricey, but solid.

Yes. Mine still are. ;)


https://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-Rackmount-Computer-Pre-Installed-RSV-L4412/dp/B00N9CXGSO

I went with something like this without the hotswap bays...

https://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-Server-Chassis-Rackmount-Metal/dp/B00N9CXGSO/

two different models, the bottom one is RSV-L4412, its the older version. The other one is Rosewill RSV-L4312. it contains the newer front end, USB 3.0 etc.


Neither one cares about the 3.3v Pin on shucked drives

One option is to move your existing hardware into on of these cases. It takes standard atx motherboards and gives 13 hot swap hard drive bays.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00N9CXGSO

Or this one is cheaper and provides room for 15 hard drives but they aren’t hot swap.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0091IZ1ZG

What about building your own? I bought a Ryzen 7 2700x, Asus Prime x470 pro motherboard, Corsair 4x16GB RAM, Rosewill 600W power supply and Rosewill 4U 12bay hot swap chassis (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00N9CXGSO?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share) for about $1000 USD.

I did already have the nvme (for OS), 9x8TB HDD for data and the storage controller for the additional drives.

It all depends on what you want. This system is silent and it serves as a KVM Hypervisor with VMs for deluge, sonarr, radarr, nextcloud, pihole, homeassistant, kubernetes, plex and even a Windows VM that never gets used.

For the price of that device I would go the xpenology route:

https://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-Rackmount-Computer-Pre-Installed-RSV-L4412/dp/B00N9CXGSO/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=12+bay+chassis&qid=1571771184&sr=8-1

Put the guts of an old gaming computer, if you have one, inside and call it a day. For instance I put an older Intel 2700k/32Gb of ram inside; threw in a LSI 9208-16i and used an SAS to SATA breakout cable. I also had an old GTX 980Ti laying around that I flashed to remove the stream limit for transcoding.

The Asustor will be underpowered for Plex, especially if you start transcoding on it or running numerous streams.

Well, since I am just starting, and trying to make the cost as painless as possible, I sold some old servers and already got this, since I found it on sale at amazon for $179 (And rails for $25): http://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-Thickness-Rackmount-Hot-Swap-RSV-L4412/dp/B00N9CXGSO/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1419713050&sr=8-6&keywords=rosewill+4u

And the thought is to get this mobo since its low power and has SAS built on:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132230&cm_re=atom_sas-_-13-132-230-_-Product

But the SAS controllers are Marvell, so I cant use FreeNas, my thought is to use OpenMediaVault... I want to do fiber channel connection to my Hyper-V box, and run all the disks from it, along with a file share with all my very legally acquired media.

I got this one, it's big, but it's a good starter case that has 12 bays in the case itself without needing a sas expander. You buy the rails separately so I purchased this for while I'm in an apartment, and I am using to to gauge how much space I would need for a full rack.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00N9CXGSO/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_bjlCzbBDGXBXK

What I use is a Rosewill RSV-L4412, it has 12 hot swap bays and is rack mountable if you want to replace your current case. Just a suggestion.

Thanks everyone for the very helpful information. I think I've narrowed it down, and if anyone wants to chime in, please do. I really want to do this right, and to that end, I will have continued patience.

It comes down to this:

I really, really like the Fractal Define XL R2. The design is exactly what I am looking for. I shouldn't worry so much about its looks as it wont really be seen, but I can't get over how good it looks. That said, I can't seem to find any information about modifying the lower front fan locations to accept more front load hotswap bays. Sure, I have the upper 4 to use, but am unsure about the bottom.

With the above said, The Antec Nine Hundred will do exactly what I want, thanks to /u/zonedguy. But the look of the case itself is not appealing to me at all. I really need to stop worrying about that and get over it.

Lastly the Rosewill RSV-L4412 will do what I want, looks good, but I will have to get creative with where I put it. Yeah, its more than twice the price of the Antec, but its completely futureproofed. I was thinking of putting it on its side, strapped to a wall, or shelf for now. I can always add an abundance of rack hardware to it in the future.

The hunt continues. Thanks again for the help!

It looks like the new version of that case is ~$250 new (https://smile.amazon.com/Rosewill-Rackmount-Computer-Pre-Installed-RSV-L4412/dp/B00N9CXGSO?ref_=bl_dp_s_mw_2530329011) as a reference point.

I've actually been looking at the case (or a variant from Rosewill) to build out my Unraid box so definitely not junk only mind.

Unfortunately no idea for the motherboard and other items.

Case first then moved to rack mount

Rosewill 4U Server Chassis/Server... https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00N9CXGSO?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

12 bays hot swappable. Running 80TB right now with dual parity and 1TB of mirrored SSD cache. Intel Core i3 and 24GB of RAM. Very comfy.

I am looking at rolling my own. Here are the components I am thinking about using.

Cables
https://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters-Internal-Mini-SAS-Breakout/dp/B012BPLYJC/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1483843852&sr=8-3&keywords=sas+to+sata

Case
https://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-Rackmount-Computer-Pre-Installed-RSV-L4412/dp/B00N9CXGSO/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1483843870&sr=8-3&keywords=rosewill+12

SAS Multiplier
https://www.amazon.com/HighPoint-16-Channel-Port-Multiplier-Rocket-EJ340/dp/B00DWV4SKM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1483843893&sr=8-1&keywords=sas+expander