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Rosewill RSV-L4500 - Server Case or Chassis, 4U Rackmount - 15 x Internal Bays, 8 x Cooling Fans Included $50
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4U Rackmount chassis
15 x Internal 3.5" HDD Bays
8 x Cooling Fan Included
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https://www.newegg.com/black-rose...68111471
15 x Internal 3.5" HDD Bays
8 x Cooling Fan Included
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| Product Name: | Rosewill RSV-L4500 - Server Case or Chassis, 4U Rackmount - 15 x Internal Bays, 8 x Cooling Fans Included |
| Product Description: | High performance servers deserve high performance chassis. |
| Manufacturer: | Rosewill |
| Model Number: | RSV-L4500 |
| Product SKU: | N82E16811147164 |
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>What you can't expect all these features from a $50 chassis!
Yes, you can, because offices are generally tossing out or selling used (but fully featured) server equipment (without hard drives) such as rackmount chassis all the time on Craigslist.
If you must have a NEW product and you don't need a backplane to manage the power/data connections, the minimum viable product is the Fractal Define R6 midtower case. You don't even need a server rack. You can fit up to 12 3.5" hard drives all blasted with cool air by 2x 140mm fans (if you purchase 6 extra drive trays). It's not as big as a full tower, and has all the modern amenities of a typical PC tower, and is a silence focused case to boot.
There's really just no excuse. A data storage rackmount server chassis just has to have externally accessible drive trays, otherwise you should just use a consumer grade PC tower that fits lots of drives.
>What you can't expect all these features from a $50 chassis!
Yes, you can, because offices are generally tossing out or selling used (but fully featured) server equipment (without hard drives) such as rackmount chassis all the time on Craigslist.
If you must have a NEW product and you don't need a backplane to manage the power/data connections, the minimum viable product is the Fractal Define R6 midtower case. You don't even need a server rack. You can fit up to 12 3.5" hard drives all blasted with cool air by 2x 140mm fans (if you purchase 6 extra drive trays). It's not as big as a full tower, and has all the modern amenities of a typical PC tower, and is a silence focused case to boot.
There's really just no excuse. A data storage rackmount server chassis just has to have externally accessible drive trays, otherwise you should just use a consumer grade PC tower that fits lots of drives.
But what if we want to mount it in our rack?
Again, there's literally no point in rackmounting all this hardware if you need to pull everything out just to add or change out 1 dead harddrive. Every instance you turn off/turn on and service servers with mechanical harddrives applying more wear and tear than just leaving the systems in a steady-state of always rotating. Especially when you need to jostle the entire system out of a rack with no sliding rails and no handles either. The entire thing is just a $50 steel box devoid of any useful server chassis features, which makes it look that much worse when you can pick up free or cheap fully featured steel boxes that, you know, actually come with the rails, drive sleds, a serviceable psu, etc for LESS.
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No, I get that part. I meant what you said about if you want something new instead of used.
First off, rackmount hardware is niche for home use. It's designed and sold (in bulk for bulk pricing) to companies that will scale out their infrastructure. While YOU (as a single individual, not a company buying multiple to fill out several dozens of 42U racks where you can negotiate for lower prices) can technically purchase "NEW" server chassis that include hotswap bays, these are few and far between and due to their low volume of sales through markets like Newegg/Amazon/etc. and will often mean higher prices to individual buyers like you or me, than a product that's bought and sold in bulk quickly (like commodity consumer cases like the Fractal Define R6).
Nobody really buys new server hardware with hotswap bays (for home use) because the aforementioned reasons makes it much more viable for a company to pay for it first, and then have people like you or me help them move it out of their office so they don't have to pay large amounts to get pallet and movers and rent a truck to send it out for recycling. That's WHY they often sell it for next to nothing or for free on craigslist, it actually costs these companies a fairly significant amount of money to get rid of unneeded hardware. This after all is a DEAL hunting site, after all, and the best deal for this type of item is to get it free or for a hugely rebated price locally, and that's why I'm pointing out WHERE the good deals are.
If you _must_ be anal about a steel box and you must absolutely have it without a single a single human soul having tainted it with their grimy germs (like, why, man) then it depends on if you already have a host server (includes CPU + Motherboard + Memory, etc) or not.
Silverstone sells some rackmount models that can host a server:
https://www.silverstone
And so does Norcotek, but Norcotek also has a number of expansion shelves (rackmount cases that are essentially "headless" that you connect to the host through some SAS cables to the main server PC via a SAS expansion card.
http://www.norcotek.co
And so do many more companies, such as iStarUSA, and more. But again, why are you going to pay >$200 to get a basic steel box with basic given rackmount features such as rails, hotswap drive bays with sleds, when you can get all those basic features for <$50 (usually free + gas to drive there and back) locally via Craigslist. Even this, which is actually painted and has hotswap bays (for a somewhat reasonable price new) is way better than the $50 trash in the OP post, https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16811147316, so I can see why THIS sold.
But really, tl;dr:
https://lmgtfy.com/?q=server+hots.