[xxpor]

I have a mini-itx case with 8 5400 rpm drives, and some basic xeon (E12xx, forgetting the exact model), and I'm shocked at how well modern power saving techniques work. When it's just sitting there being a file server it consumes less than 100 watts, and even when I'm pulling from it at over a gigabit it goes up to maybe 110. It also has 120 mm fans, but I barely notice when they kick on. The loudest part of the whole thing are the heads on the HDDs kicking back and forth!

[mrslave]

Mini-ITX case recommendation that holds 8 3.5" drives please?

[walterbell]

InWin MS08, https://www.ipc.in-win.com/soho-smb-iw-ms08

Norco ITX-S8, http://www.norcotek.com/product/itx-s8/

Silverstone GD07 plus 3-bay hotswap cages for dual-bay 5.25 = 11 drives total with audio device aesthetic, https://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=330&area=en

[DHowett]

I’m very happy with my U-NAS enclosure (NSC-400; 4 hotswap bays), and they do have 8-bay enclosures.

https://www.u-nas.com/xcart/cart.php?target=product&product_...

[poglet]

My recommendation would be the Fractal Design Node 804.

[mrslave]

People actually put a mini-ITX in a micro-ATX case?!?!?! faints

[Macha]

microATX motherboards are dying out - with the ability to omit drive bays entirely and just mount SSDs to the back of a motherboard tray, full ATX cases can get reasonably small now, so there's less demand.

It turns out PCI express slots are either something people want 3+ of (like a streamer setup of gpu, capture card, high end network card) or 1 of (GPU only) or none (business PC, devs happy with Intel or APU graphics). So really the only tradeoff the largest chunk of the market is making picking miniITX is that I haven't seen any with 4 RAM slots and a m.2 drive (though both features are available seperately on many motherboards). And even then the standard gamer setup is 2x8, while the amount of professionals for whom 64gb (2x32) is too little but 128gb is enough is currently a small market also.

Case manufacturers are not so quick to abandon the size though, with the result that if you get a case that you like for size/features/airflow and it happens to be a microATX case, most of your motherboard options are going to be miniITX.

[poglet]

I build my partner a PC in the Node 304(not 804). I made a mistake on the number, sorry. The 304 can only fit 6 3.5" HDD's.

I recommenced it if you only require 6 HDD's, and I don't put ITX into ATX cases haha. I've always had fun building ITX systems.