Rosewill 2U Server Chassis Rackmount Case | 4 3.5″ HDD Bays | Micro-ATX Compatible |3 x 80mm PWM Fans | 2X USB 3.0 | Silver/Black – RSV-Z2600U

very very solid…minimal clearances though. Fans are decent.
I replaced all of the internal fans with Noctua 80mm, and tbh…the sound difference isn’t that minimal. I ended up reusing the stock fans in different parts of the case. I did two desktop conversions with these cases, and each worked out although the clearance between the onboard sata ports and the fan housing was so short, I had to remove that housing the get insert the sata cables (and I had to use differing directional angular connections (one up, one down) to fit one of the boards in. I managed to fit 8 drives (6 hdd, 2 sdd) in the drive bay area, but the gap between the drive bays and the motherboard enclosure is a bit small…fortunately, I installed a sas card with thin sata cabling (otherwise, they wouldn’t have fit). Clearance between the drives and the fan enclosure is also a few mm too small…cabling coming out of the drives bends sharply against the fan grills (they’re ultra thin too), and I ended up breaking one of them (finding out after reassembly…sigh). Being gentle helps there.The one real gripe though, is that the psu compartment is too small for all of the psus I have. I got it to fit, but had to take out the mounting bracket as the psu length is an inch or so too long, so it’s just wedged in there. The rails come out of the psu and run right into one of the 4 (optional) 80 mm fans, so I could only power the drives and fans off of the two rails that were far enough to the right to avoid that fan.You will definitely need fan grills on all internal fans. The 80mm space in the rear doesn’t have mounting wholes…do I used HVAC tape. It might sound janky, but its stable.Zip ties area your friend as well at keeping cabling in order. I also ended up getting a Noctua low profile cooler to replace the typical monster sized desktop ones. I had to bend it a bit to get it to clear the ram, and still fit inside the 2U enclosure. Had to remove the ram heat sync’s as well, but that Noctua was so large it covered the ram as well, so…I suppose that’s a little bit of a positive side effect.Note to self: never throw away low profile card brackets…the generic ones I ended up using don’t really fit the cards.In total, it was worth the conversion, although with a 10G and SAS card installed. Drives are the same temperatures as they were in the desktop case (29c-35c) even under continuous load. It took a lot of hours though to get things in and fitting…taking things apart when they dont fit and re-routing cables. The second time around though had a much more clean looking result.I don’t use rails…my rack has three shelves in place as-is, so they’re just stacked (bolted, with spaces on the back side for the same clearance I would have gotten with rails)I think I will go for a 3U or 4U next time just for better clearances for cabling, and more GPU options (which I didn’t have for these conversions).

Decent, could have been better
I purchased this case because the previous case wasn’t deep enough to properly house four 12TB hard drives. This case will fit four drives but you have to get creative for them to fit with the edge of a micro-ATX bumping into the back of the drives. In my case I had to flip a drive so that the cabling doesn’t hit the ATX power cable. I can’t hook up the case USB 3 cable because it smacks into the drive cables as well.This wouldn’t be a problem if the case could have mounted the drives sideways given there is more than enough room. It probably would have cost the manufacture pennies to add the additional mounting holes for the drives. Other 2U cases provide this feature given drives for large NAS setups require it.

Great choice for my home network! However, height is almost too short for a standard PSU and I had some issues with the pre-installed fans hitting the dust covers. On the bright side, drive bays are individually removable if not needed which improves airflow!