| Re: Looking for a rack-mountable CPU case
Having built a fair number of rack-mount cases for silent applications, I can tell you this: get a 4U case if you can spare the space. You'll have room for optical drives, you can use a standard power supply, room for big fans, no riser cards needed. Lately I have been buying ones from Norco, the RPC-810 specifically. They need 90-degree SATA connectors to mount hard disks, but you can put three disks in with fantastic ventilation, or six with decent ventilation. With a good CPU fan, the included 120mm fans rewired to 5V and a Seasonic power supply, one of them is quiet enough that it's in a rack three feet behind a theater audience member. You literally cannot tell that it is on without looking at it, as even the (fairly quiet) HVAC is noisier than any fan in the case.
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