Specifications from their site<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\uffed Support up to 12 drives in unprecedented 30 liter Micro-ATX chassis size<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\uffed Designed for vertical or horizontal position, allow users to freely place CS381 anywhere <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\uffed Includes two long-life (L10, 70,000 hours) dual ball bearing 120mm fans <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\uffed Hot-swap drive trays support up to eight 3.5\u201d or 2.5\u201d SAS-12G \/ SATA-6G drives with two LED indicators for displaying drive status <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\uffed Accommodates SFX or SFX-L power supply<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\uffed Support normal height expansion slots for installation of cards up to 267mm long <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\uffed Kensington lock on front panel for additional security<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Just beautiful <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Soooo looks like we have our end goal in mind. The chassis has a built in backplane with a U.2 type connector and a 6-pin PCI-E connector to power each backplane. This chassis is loaded otherwise with plenty of room to fit in more drives internally. The general complaint that I read is there are a alot of screws to deal with when building this. Further making me grateful for hotswap abilities here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Great, but how much is this case going to cost you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Heh, Yea it is not cheap at $349.99, and worse it doesn’t even come with any mini-SAS or cables to support the backplane. We’ll probably be adding another $40-50 or so bringing us to ~$400, and we have yet to figure out the rest of the build. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For testing and lack of patience, I could always use an old Z68 system I have laying around and toss it all in and see what happens? I can confirm that somehow the PERC H200 SAS adapter already works when installed on the motherboard I have. Bonus that it even mounted up and auto installed drivers under Win7 Home Premium of all things. After recovering from Christmas expenses a bit, I will get this case ordered up and in hand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Matt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s been a long time coming and like most things of non-critical nature that carry big expenses, I tend to delay it all as long<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-build-log","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekheadmatt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekheadmatt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekheadmatt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekheadmatt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekheadmatt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tekheadmatt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"https:\/\/tekheadmatt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekheadmatt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekheadmatt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekheadmatt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/tekheadmatt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/backplane-1024x1024.jpg\")
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