rackchoice 4U Rackmount Server Chassis with 6 x 5.25 Front Bays + 1 x 3.5 + 4 x 2.5 Bays

Case is good, being used to case swap an old dell mini tower, power supply and mobo ,to expand my media storage needs,easily removable components make installing all parts a breeze.

Honestly one of the best cost effective cases I've seen. It's built really solidly.

Thought it would be fun to build a rack for my computer and sound equipment so I got this chassis. It is neat and I had to make some small adjustments. Actually used aviation snips to the stability bar that lays across the top so I could fit a good video card. Needed to fix the backwards power/hdd light jumpers because they were mislabeled. Will get some wd-40 or olive oil or something for the godawful creek of the filters on the font (they squeak awfully loud when replacing). Most recently picked up a NH-C14S and additional fans to address airflow - it fits perfectly without making additional cuts to the bar. This PC plays games smoothly while streaming to discord with OBS and multiple cams. So happy with the product!

Most importantly, the doors are REALLY hard to open. Yes it's unlocked, it's just they have a really secure hold in the closed position and my fingers are big enough that trying to grab the small spot they have to open them is impossible to get enough force to pull it open, I had to add zip ties through a ventilation slot on each door to create handles for when I need to open it. Part of the use of this is disc imaging so the doors will be accessed quite frequently on mine. I may even look at how to remove the doors entirely. Next problem, the cross bar over the motherboard can block graphics cards. With the increasing need for GPUs for AI processing and such, this is a problem. The graphics card I have is not especially tall, but side of the crossbar goes over the PCIe plug, if the plug or the crossbar were in slightly different positions it might fit while touching the card, but I wouldn't try it. Thankfully the structure still seems solid without the crossbar in place. The power LED and the activity LEDs appear to be backwards. When plugged into my motherboard as the case has labeled, the power LED flashes (red) and the activity LED is solid (blue). There are icons on the case however indicating which is power and which is activity so it's annoying that it is backwards. The case also has no instructions to indicate which wire is positive on each, though one has red & white so easy to guess that red is positive, the other has black and green which are both common negative colors resulting in guesswork, thankfully there's only 2 options. Back to the no instructions, it's not a big deal since it's just a case, however knowing what screws are intended for where, warnings about the crossbar being optional or necessary, information about the drive bays for how to configure for what drives, etc; all that information isn't present. Again, with experience most of it you can guess pretty quickly. One drive bay side does have built-in 5.25 to 3.25 reducers, but it looks like a PITA to try to use them, though in fairness that's true of pretty much all 5.25 to 3.25 reducers. For my need, I'm only putting opticals in the bays and the motherboard has NVMes. Overall, it's not a bad case for the money, but it's got some concerns to watch for.

I like the sturdy construction, and the exterior is entirely black except for the very back surface. I dislike that where the internal steel parts were cut there are a LOT of sharp edges. If I had time I would have gone over the entire case with a de-burring tool to make it safer to work on. The product really should come with a warning label about the sharp edges. This is my first build in a rack-able case so I don't know if that is a common problem.