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)

when looking at other NAS cases on the market, you get cramped poorly cooled and limited space for boardsThis 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.

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 WiFi7) 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.

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.