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Silent Home Server Case?

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Limp Gawd
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I have a SuperChassis 743TQ-865B-SQ currently and it makes more noise than I care for. So I'm looking to spend a little more this time and get something that I can't hear from my living room.

Any advice? I have 8 drives in it, so I need the space. I'm too the point where I'm about to make a server room in the corner of my garage and run an A/C duct.
 
What is your budget and are you going to expand? I think most people will say Norco 4224 and replace the fans with 3x 120mm's as that's a very popular solution, but that's going to run $450 for 24 bays. A cheaper option with at least 8 bays would be to purchase a mid tower that you can swap with low noise/undervolted fans, 6x 5.25 bays, put as many of the drives in the internal 3.5 slots, and convert 3x 5.25 bays to 5x 3.5 hotswap bays. That would run roughly $70 for a case, and $100 per 5 to 3 Supermicro hotswap bays so $170 for ~10 bays (5 internal + 5 hotswap) to $270 ~15 bays (5 internal + 10 hotswap). The absolute cheapest solution would be to replace and/or undervolt the fans in your current case, or to move the case somewhere else since it seems like you are using it as a NAS anyways.
 
If you are not going to be hot-swapping drives, I hope you can TJ04-E or KL04 from SilverStone a look.
 
I do not plan on hot-swapping anytime soon.

COOLER MASTER COSMOS II RC-1200-KKN1 Maybe?
 
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