looking for a small NAS case

[Cr0nJ0b]

I'm doing work on a NAS build and I need to have a small case that can support this.

MB455SPF-B

It's a 5 bay sata cage that sits in the space of 3 5.25 bays.

I would like the smallest case possble that has adequate venting.

thanks

 

[Zepper]

See if something here suits you: http://directron.com/cdtower.html

Or look at the Linkworld stacker type case on Newegg - $50. You'll have to bend or cut the little ears between the bays out of the way on this and many of the above.

The Domino cases with the B or C suffix on this page have a bottom bay with three 5" drive spaces with no ears - great for a 3-bay hot-swap cage.

You may find other useful boxes at http://www.servercases.com or http://www.buildtoorderservers.com .

And storage specialty sites like hypermicro.com (check the storageReview site for the latest Hypermicro deal), scsi4me.com or pc-pitstop.com .

.bh.

 

[Cr0nJ0b]

thanks for the fast response. This is obviously a hard one. The CD stackers don't have room for the motherboard and the others just seem too big. I'm hoping to do this with as little modding as possible. for some reason I thought there would be a cube case that would have 3 5.25 bays in from that that's all...but I can't find it. Ill keep loking.

 

[Telvin]

What size motherboard are you using?
Since you are talking small, I assume that you are using mATX. newegg has a couple mATX mid/mini tower cases listed with 3 5.25 bays. This one looks OK http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16811190072

 

[Zepper]

I noticed that Provantage.com has a good price on that cage. I went to the Newegg case configurator and found 51 cases with three 5" bays. One is only 14x15x7 and holds a microATX mobo too. And Antec has the Sonata II in their B Stock store. Uses drive rails and has no ears between bays. InWin and others are like that too - fairly small for ATX cases.

.bh.