K7 8 Bay NAS Case, Computer Enclosures Compatible Micro-ATX Mini-ITX Motherboard, 3 x Fans, 8 x 2.5/3.5" Tray, Network Attached Storage Server for Home(Diskless)

This is a great case and not just "for the price." There's a lot to like here. The case takes both mATX and Mini-ITX motherboards. The drive trays can be a bit finicky to get clipped into place, but what plastic drives trays aren't, and how often are you really going to be removing/adding hard drives? Don't force the tray in and you won't break anything. The drive trays have mounting holes for both 3.5" and 2.5" drives. Drive trays have a blue light for power and a green light for activity. The 2-compartment design keeps the heat from the hard drives from washing over your motherboard and ensures the air pulled over the drives has a straight shot out of the case. I have 8, 7200-rpm drives and after 48 straight hours of file copying, temps were all b/t 47C and 51C. They idle at around 44C. Those are not bad temps at all for eight, 7200-prm disks crammed together in a quiet case. The fans the case comes with are not horrible. They are completely acceptable for stock fans. In fact, I bought 80mm Noctua Redux and 60mm Redux fans to replace all of them. The stock 80mms are actually not as noisy. The Redux fans have a bit of a high-pitched whine to them, which is more annoying to me than the hum of the stock fans. The 60mm Noctua is quieter and moves the same air as the stock 60mm fan, so that got swapped out. Due to the small upper compartment, and the good exhaust ventilation design, a single, quiet 60mm fan is sufficient to keep the CPU reasonably cool. If you don't mind fan noise, put a high-speed fan in there and you could keep a higher-wattage CPU fairly cool. I have a SuperMicro A2SDi-8C+ motherboard (Atom C3758 CPU) in this case and the CPU idles at 45C and never breaks 50C even under load. That's with the tiny 40mm fan that comes stock on the MB CPU HSF. You could fit approximately a 1U-height or other low-profile CPU HSF in here, so you might be able to keep a more powerful CPU reasonably cool (but noisy). I wouldn't put a 150W+ CPU in this case though. The case is SUPER-EASY to build in. The PSU (Flex format) lives in the lower compartment, so there's nothing in the MB area but the 60mm fan. There are some small gotchas that you need to be aware of. Most Flex PSUs don't have really long cables. You will need an ATX 24-pin, and CPU 12v 8-pin extension cables b/c most ATX/12V MB sockets are the side of the MB opposite of where the PSU mounts in the bottom compartment. I'd like to see these extensions included with the case, even if they upped the price by $10. It's likely that 90%+ of users will need these extensions and it can be a real bummer finishing up your new build only to realize you have to wait another few days for the cables you didn't know you needed to arrive b/c your PSU cables are 2" too short. There are no SSD mounting locations in the MB tray, but there is space along the sides of the compartment to mount SSDs with double-sided tape, which is what I have done. It's not likely you'll be moving this case around, so double-sided tape on SSDs that weigh like 1 ounce works just fine. I have 2 SSDs mounted and could fit in a third without too much hassle. Using 20TB hard drives, you could have 160TB of storage in a case the size of a large shoebox. That's just nuts. FANTASTIC CASE and highly recommended.

the case is a little tight to work in it's quality is ok only one hdd tray not lighting up ,tried switching trays but nothing works checked that tray everything seams ok but when i put it back in case still not lighting up so i think the led problem is on hdd back plane size of this case is perfect for the space i have it in it has almost enough room in motherboard part to add 2 -2.5 sata ssd but mounts for only 1 so i 3d printed a mount that holds 2 price point it should actually be $30 less product support is almost non existent. it came with no setup guide and has a ton of screws don't know which is which so no i will not be recommending this nas case to anyone

The case is great for a NAS or SAN (what I used it for). The back-plane will accommodate not only SATA, but also SAS drives. The drive bays work great. Wish there was a connector on the back-plane for drive locator LED connectors. Stock noise level is very acceptable. With the stock fans and 8 SAS drives, the case runs cool, but the drives are hot as there is nearly no air flow around the drives. There's a lot of wasted space in the lower chamber where the drives are to accommodate the front power button and USB connectors, but those could have been moved to the top and the drives spread out a bit to help in ventilation. I played around with different fan configurations for a week until I built a solution which causes the drive temperatures to not budge at all under activity. You'll find it if you search for Audheid on Thingiverse. All in all, I'd recommend the case.

I have three U-NAS 810a cases that are similar in design to this one. They are better build quality and noticeably heaver. The cooling is much better. The PSU mount is better. The included fans are better. Unfortunately, I haven't seen them in stock for over 6 months and don't expect them to return. I was excited that these were available and bought three for $180 each. Here are my thoughts: PROS - Hot-swappable 8-bay. There aren't many options. - Relatively low price compared to the few similar options - Decent-enough aesthetically. CONS - The fans are not good. While performing a scrub on my ZFS pool, I received an alert about drives being over temp. I looked and all of them were around 60C. This is bad! You can barely feel any air coming out the back. I immediately canceled the scrub, and the drives idle around 45-50c. For comparison, the U-NAS 810a with included fans the same drives idle around 30-35c and never reach 40c even during a scrub. This case -- same drives, same use -- 15-20c higher temps. The U-NAS 810a has 2 x 120mm Gelid fans instead of this with 2 x 90mm ??? fans. I am using these as an external enclosure (as I do with the U-NAS) and so do not have a motherboard installed, but can't imagine how hot it would get if I did. I will install a blank plate in the io-shield spot and hopefully direct more air over the drives, a fan controller to increase the RPM, and if that doesn't work I'll finally try new fans. I don't think this case has any right to advertise 'great cooling.' - I bought and set up 3 of these. When I powered on one of them for the first time, blue flashed from inside, the home's circuit tripped, and the outlet fried. I've built countless systems over the years and never, ever experienced a short. To reiterate, these are set up as an external jbod and only have the backplane and SAS expander connected to the PSU, so there's little room for error. After taking it apart, my theory is that the pins from the molex connector through the backplane was a little too long and shorted with the hard-drive casing. I have no way to validate this, but after putting a small piece of electrical tape over the molex power pins facing the hard drive, this didn't happen again. The manufacturer could either ensure the pins are not excessively long, or put some sort of non-conductive shielding between the drives and backplane. - The edges are sharp! They do include some basic gloves, which I thought was a nice touch, but it would be even nicer if the case never tried to cut you in the first place. This is not a unique issue, and not a deal-breaker, but be careful! - The PSU mounting bracket is terrible. I had to manually trim it because it covered the switch on the Silverstone 350w Flex PSU. It's a very flimsy metal that bends under the weight of the PSU. It would be much nicer if the PSU just mounted directly to the case, or if a stronger metal is used that doesn't interfere with the switch. If the U-NAS 810a is ever in stock -- buy that instead. The build quality is better (though it may still cut you), the power supply mount is stronger, the cooling is MUCH better, and it was only $20 more. If the U-NAS 810s continues to be out of stock -- this will do. It was a fair value at $180, but I see the seller has increased the price to $200. Comparing this at $200 to the U-NAS at $220, I could not recommend this. However, since there aren't really alternatives, this will do the job...

This case is decent quality and I'm happy with the end result, however, it is a royal pain to build in. It comes with the territory to build in a small case, but this case is nearly impossible to snake cable through, and it is razor sharp (I literally sliced off a small portion of the tip of my thumb by accident). You'll need to be especially careful that you don't cut cables when finagling them due to the overly sharp edges. Now some useful information that I wished I'd had as it would have saved me time and money: 1) The bays serve SATA power and SATA data to the drives. The SATA data is served via sata ports on the backside of the harddrive backplane. This means that you will need at least eight sata ports (one per bay), but you can use your own cables if you want (it does come with some decently long ones already plugged in). I replaced them all because I used an LSI HBA raid card, which I highly recommend since feeding full-sized SATA cables is a pain due to the limited space. 2) The drive bays are powered via two Molex connectors, so make sure your PSU has at least two Molex power outputs. The fans on the back hook into the harddrive backplane board so they don't need extra power and the little fan on the top uses a Molex connector but it comes with a splitter so you don't lose a cable by powering it. It's long enough to hook into the closest drive backplane molex port. 3) You will almost certainly need to buy a 24pin ATX cable extender and a 8pin ATX power cable extender. In either case 6 inches is more than enough. 4) You'll probably want to buy at least one sata power cable extender/splitter if you intend to have 2.5" SSD's up top. 5) Speaking of SSD's, there is officially a spot for one of them along the side in the upper section, however, there's just enough room to mount two additional ones on the other side (opposite side to motherboard ports) with double-sided tape. 6) I went with a Ryzen 7 based CPU, and found this motherboard to be a very good fit (if you're not wanting to go with a proper server board): Gigabyte B450M DS3H WiFi 7) If you do go with an AM4 socket, the Noctua NH-L9x65 SE-AM4 cooler just barely fits and is a great choice (it's what I'm using). 8) I found this case is lacking in decent quality screws and enough of them. I highly recommend buying one of this kits with common spare PC screws in all the sizes.

when looking at other NAS cases on the market, you get cramped poorly cooled and limited space for boards This thing can support up to an matx board, multiple low profile pci cards, the cooling is great for the drives, decent for the motherboard and you get all 8 drive bays without having to make any sacrifices unlike some other brands.... This product does have some quality control issues, 2 of my drive caddies seem to have dimmer lights compared to the others, and one of the sata connectors was damaged on one of the 2 backplanes but the seller is sending me a new board. over all even with minor quality control issues this is the best case on the market for anyone looking to build a home server, its small its quite, and it can fit as much storage as your heart desires. i would have given this a 4 star but in comparison to other cases available this is the best design, if the seller of this product starts listing replacement parts and extra drive caddies on amazon i have no doubt it will become the go to for anyone looking to build a home server.

Spent a lot of time working with this box to try and make it work for my needs. It _could_ have worked, but there were just so many minor flaws preventing me from doing what I need. I put this case to the side and got something different in the end. The biggest issue in this box, airflow. This was supposed to be a 4k NAS/gaming PC that sits under my TV. I went with a Gigabyte Low Profile 4060, Ryzen 7 7700X, and 4x WD Red Pro drives. No matter what CPU cooler I used, there is absolutely no airflow in the upper compartment with the motherboard. The only intake is the left side of the unit, and the majority of airflow is blocked by the video card and wiring, as that's where the primary cabling route from the top to the bottom (with PSU) exists. I attempted multiple air CPU coolers from Noctua and Thermalright with no luck on keeping the unit cool enough to not throttle on high temps. Even leaving the case open, there really is nowhere for the air to go and still runs hot. It's a poor design choice that the front of the case doesn't have ventilation allowing some small fans to be placed in the front, running airflow over the board to exhaust out the back. Running cables in the unit is also a bit of a headache, but it's an SFF so that can be forgiven. Other people complained about sharp edges internally, but working in it was more comparable to working on a rackmount server than on a desktop which is meant to be worked in frequently. It's a great device if you plan on running very lightweight workloads on low power hardware. But it's noisy due to the lack of ventilation, your fans will run harder more frequently than not. I don't believe it's the right product for the market segment it's trying to capture.

I wanted to downsize from 2 x Rosewill server cases to a 2 x 8-bay NAS cases (NAS + DAS configuration), and these fit the bill. Overall, I've been extremely pleased with them. Since U-NAS cases are impossible to find now, this makes a great alternative. Pros: - Pretty well built...didn't find anything too flimsy or didn't align properly...screws on the back (that secure the lid) can take some finagling but overall still go in each time - It has many more PCIE slots for a Micro ATX motherboard that U-NAS doesn't - Anti-vibration pads on the feet are a nice touch and help reduce some wear on the hard drives - Comes with adapter for Flex ATX power supply...probably best to use a Flex ATX PSU anyway but it can definitely fit a 1U PSU (used a Supermicro PWS-351-1H in NAS and Enhance ENP-7025B in DAS) - Can comfortably fit a 2U height heatsink/cooler - Outside of installing the SATA cables and Molex power cables, it's pretty easy to work in Cons: - Really wish it had 2 x 120mm fans instead of 2 x 92mm fans..the temperature in my closet where these are stored is around 26C (79F) on average and that can equal out to about 36C for all my hard drives (ranging anywhere from 33C to 40C)...not perfect but definitely acceptable...this is even after I replaced both of the original fans with Noctua NF-A9's and are running at nearly full speed (move lots of air while still relatively quiet) - PCIE slots are half-height so that does limit what cards you can install - LED colors would be better if they were the same across the entire case (just seems weird to have a mix of green and blue) - It's not as visually appealing as a U-NAS case...at least it doesn't have an ugly logo situated on the front though - You're likely going to need some extension cables (Molex, EPS, and 24pin, 4pin fan) Conclusion: Its Pros definitely outweigh its Cons. I'd definitely recommend this case to anyone looking for a little NAS that is relatively quiet and doesn't take up much space.