4 + 1 Bay DIY NAS Case, 4 x 2.5″ / 3.5″ Tray + 1 x 2.5″ Internal Bay. MB ITX. PSU Flex. Front USB 3.0 8cm Chassis Fan Hot Swap Backplane. Network Attached Storage Private Cloud Enclosure.

The case is small and the video build is misleading. I used a 1155 itx MB and i5-3470 cpu with a Thermalight AX90 cpu cooler (35mm). However, the MB cannot be installed without removing the HDD tray. To remove the HDD tray the front cover needs to be removed (4 screws and 4 tabs). Then remove 4 screws from the back and 4 screws from front and the HDD tray can be slid out the front exposing the MB mounts. There is about 1mm gap from top of cpu cooler and bottom of HDD tray when reinstalled. If noise is an issue, replace the 80mm fan with quieter fan. As mentioned in other reviews, there is little airflow, but temps seem ok at stock settings. Other than a challenging build, the case is great. Have fun with it.

I really like this ITX form factor NAS case. I use my NAS for NAS things, so I chose a low power motherboard.. and that's a good thing. There is very little room for a CPU cooler in there. The metal it's made from is quite thin, but for the price I can't complain. Everything fits well, and the drive trays are sturdy enough. They give you mounting screws, and you will need to use them or the drive trays won't slide in. I did replace the case fan, the one it came with isn't PWM speed controlled, and it's pretty loud. Airflow is fine, everything maintains safe temps even under load. As with any small case you will need to manage your cables well, but I had no trouble fitting everything in. The mounting solution for the power supply is quite flimsy, but once everything is in place it's sturdy enough to do the job. Would definitely buy again.My setup: Odroid H4 + with the ITX motherboard adapter, ThermalRight 80mm thin fan, Apevia 300 watt supply, 4 WD Red Plus drives.

After eyeballing the four bay version of this case for quite some time I was very pleased to discover the eight bay version.I needed a way to accommodate ten drives for a home media server. This was the solution. It is less expensive, smaller and quite sturdy.As with any mini itx build, things are tight and space for your hands is very limited.Cable management is difficult but easily accomplished with zip ties and hot glue.Internal temperature runs a little high when all ten drives are spinning. But in my configuration, the top four drives are back up drivers and are only used once a week for about two days (22tb to back up).By utilizing a modular flex power supply, cables that aren't needed aren't in the case, and more space is available for add-ons (I needed a mini PCIe to four port SATA Card which is hot glued to the drive cage).I am very satisfied with my purchase, and very impressed with this little giant.Future plans call for an additional set of drives for a secondary backup. Which means purchasing additional drive trays. I'm not sure if they are available, I haven't reached out to the manufacturer, but I'm sure they can supply them.As always, if you need it, get it. You won't be disappointed.

There was zero quality control on my case. The back I/O shield area was severely bent before the case was packed because the box it arrived within looked undamaged. Also, one of the SATA board standoffs was missing, and whatever numbskull who put this together just went ahead and screwed in the cage anyways, thus warping the board so no HDD / SDD could plugin to SATA or power on the bottom most slot of the hot swap front of the case. I confirmed this by taking the case apart completely. Amazon is going to make it right, but maybe think twice before buying a cheap case.Do not buy this thing with a large flex PSU, it won’t fit. Highly recommend 150w modular so you can unplug anything not used. I went with a 500 w non modular and ended up with a ton of unused cables that were difficult to tuck away on this thing.If I did this again, I would just buy a different case or maybe a bigger case, like a Noctua. This wasn’t worth the size and there are like zero itx boards with the built in USB 3.0 header, so you end up buying a USB 2.0 mother board header splitter and an adapter from 2.0 header to the 3.0 header (USB A physical type, not C).There are way too many screws in this case. It should be more modular / able to be built without a screwdriver, because with the amount of space you have to build you aren’t going to be doing much past swapping bigger hard drives out potentially.I give 2 stars because if it was actually delivered to me in a non-damaged state it would have been decent.Update:Three stars because they actually sent me a non-defective case. The updated case only has USB 3.0 on the front of the case, which is nice, but no ITX board supports it so I had to buy a USB 2.0 header to 3.0 header adapter, and now my splitter for the USB 2.0 header is useless that I bought to accommodate their prior version case that had USB 2.0 and 3.0 ports on the front. So beware there are TWO revisions of the case, at the very least, and that dictates the USB header adapter one needs to buy.Oh also I recommend getting a Noctua NF-A4x20 PWM fan kit which comes with a splitter so you can use the one four pin case fan header on your ITX motherboard (basically zero ITX boards have more than one case fan header). The case gets HOT without the airflow and four HDDs.Other small nitpicks: The LED headers for the NICs - basically zero mother boards with this feature that have four NICs. The LED for the HDD activity is so dim in comparison to the green CPU activity LED that you can't really see the HDD activity blue LED. maybe use a less cheap blue led or use LEDS that aren't blindingly bright! I'd just get rid of the NIC front case LEDs cause nobody is going to connect those, and make the front USB ports just 2.0 because if you go look on the market there aren't any ITX boards with the 3.0 header on the board.

After almost 2 years of using and testing this device, I have finally decided to trash this case and spend more money on something much better.My case arrived defective (but I didn't realize it until after my return window was over) and my top tray has a connector problem creating a large amount of drive errors. After moving drives, cables, trays, I was able to finally learn it was the backplane. Nothing I can do about that but I hope the seller reads this and is willing to send me a replacement backplane.The second issue is cooling. The case has few vents and no place to mount a fan to keep these drives cool. My drives average about 50c which is way too hot. Thought about replacing the only rear fan but without case vent holes I didn't see the point. The front grate is also very limiting.