Norco 4020 case question.

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Thinking of building an ESX/file server box with the norco 4020 case. I'm wondering if there enough space to fit a 5.25 drive bay up where the floppy spot is. I have to take and cut it out but do you guys think there would be enough space? Wanting to put a 4 SAS backpanel in there. Like this one.

Here a picture to explain more of where i thinking.
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2uif60j&s=5

Looks like there enough width but what about high?
 
Looks like you'd have about 1.7" in height there to the top of the case, which is pushing it very close to the height of a 5.25" drive (little over 1.6")

I'd wait until I could get a measurement instead of a ballpark from and angled picture.
 
Isnt there a spot for a slim optical on the other side of the case? Or do you mean a 4x2.5" backplane?
 
GLSauron said:
Isnt there a spot for a slim optical on the other side of the case? Or do you mean a 4x2.5" backplane?
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Yes there is but i wanting to put a backplane in there if possible. Hoping someone who owns ones can tell me if this will work or not.
 
If you can live without hot-swap, you can put the backplane in the back above the expansion slots like Ockie did. You can also get 2.5" brackets for mounting the individual drives in expansion slots. If you do go with the backplane, I would recommend you get the Supermicro one over that one.
 
Blue Fox said:
If you can live without hot-swap, you can put the backplane in the back above the expansion slots like Ockie did. You can also get 2.5" brackets for mounting the individual drives in expansion slots. If you do go with the backplane, I would recommend you get the Supermicro one over that one.
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I sure i can. I was just thinking small and can fit 4 drives. Only wanting 6 max. So where to put the other two drives. Not sure :p

Wanting to run raid 1for operating system(requires two drives) then raid 10(min 4 drives) for virtual machine storage.

The expansion slot idea is kinda up in the air. I plan to use the majority if not all between the raid card and 2 8 port super micro cards for all 20 drive bays. Plus a tuner card possibly. Might have a few spots left over. well see :p
 
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