4U Server Cabinet Case - Rackmount Server Chassis with 7 PCI Slots, Lockable with Key

The case does everything one could want in a general computer case; it encloses computer components. There are no frills in a cheap case, but that's why one would purchase a case like this one. The case is made of surprisingly thin steel, and that initially seemed like a bad thing, but it does make the case light and yet it still seems to be reasonably sturdy. In the end, it seems to be more of a feature than a quality issue. This fits a standard 19" rack. A couple of items are of note: 1) The case sports two plastic handles. These are clearly for use if you're using sliding rails. They are not sufficiently sturdy to use them to lift the case. 2) The fan that comes with the case is single-speed and very cheap. Replace it with a Noctua NF-A12x25 PWM (ASIN B07C5VG64V) fan to quiet the server and allow for fan control. Also, the fan mount contains a thin dust filter, but no sort of grill to keep the dust filter out of the fan blades. Adding a grill between the dust filter and the fan is a good idea. After getting this case installed in my rack and living with it for a bit, there are a couple of things that are wrong with it: 1) The aforementioned filter that was threatening to be sucked into the fan? There's no good way to clean it. To access the filter, you need to remove the fan. To remove the fan, you need to remove the drive bay in front of it. To remove that bay, you pretty much need to remove the whole drive mount assembly from the front of the case. Just something of which to be aware. 2) This *is* a rack mount case. There are two ways it can be mounted, either fixed using the flanges on the front of the case or via sliding rails. Sliding rails are convenient and the case does have threaded holes along the sides for sliding rails, so I went that way. Some reasonable rails to match this case are the Rosewill rails (ASIN B0D9NL6WJW). There are nicer rails out there, but these are relatively cheap and work well. At least the rails would have worked well if the holes for sliding rails were drilled to match a standard 1U, 2U, etc. Rather, the holes are aligned vertically at the midpoint of the case, meaning that the holes fall at the bottom of 2U from the top. That makes mounting the case using the existing holes require a 1/2U gap at the top. So, new holes are your friend! If you don't already have them, NEIKO 02639A 6-Inch Automatic Center Punch (ASIN B08KGF7ZFQ), Metric Tap & Drill Bit Set, 2Pcs M4 (ASIN B0F291HS9Q), and Piutouyar M3-M12 Adjustable Tap Wrench Handle (ASIN B09F312N5R). Measure the new holes to fall 1/2U below the existing holes, punch, drill, and tap. That'll fix the alignment within your rack. 2a) I'm not sure if this is particular to those Rosewill sliding rails or if this would happen with any rails, but only the front two holes can be used. When I put screws in the rear rail holes, something was hitting when I tried to push the case in. After removing those rear screws, everything worked perfectly.

It is a cheap rackmount. For a cheap rackmount it does a great job. If you know what you are getting you'll be pretty happy.

The good: For the price, this is an excellent option for a small rack-mount case. The 4U size lets it hold a full-height graphics card, which is nice. The case is reasonably roomy, supports 6 full-size hard disks, and has two 5 1/4" drive bays. It will fit multiple different motherboard sizes. The case doesn't have the sharp edges common for budget cases, so my hands aren't cut and bloody after installing. The less good: The rack that holds the drive bays is screwed in, which makes it far less convenient for maintenance than if there were tooless clips. The cover uses standard case screws instead of thumb screws, which would have been nice. The front panel is a Key lock only. It would have been nice to have an option to not have to keylock the front panel. The hard drive cage is only deep enough to cover the screws for hard disks that have three screw mounts on each side. (Front, middle, back) Hard disks that have only two mount points (Front and Back) like some NAS hard drives, can only be mounted with one set of screws instead of two. The Bad: The cables for the USB connectors on the front panel are situated in a way that requires them to be run through the drive cage to connect to the motherboard. This means that in order to install or remove hard disks you have to unplug the USB connector from the motherboard. This is a horrible design flaw. Additionally, it means you can't use the 7th hard drive space. Having to remove a cable from the motherboard to replace a hard drive is inexcusable in my opinion.

The value on this thing is amazing. Yes it's cheaply made. Yes it comes without the high end options. It's amazing for the price though. It is 100% fully functional and usable out of the box. It fit on the rack perfectly and everything fit inside great. It's all metal, so I expect years and years of use from it. At this price point, I was expecting to find alterations needed.

Fits components well and is a very good value for the price. Only issue is that the handles on the front are plastic and one side cracked, but I glued it back together.

This case isn’t bad. Plastic handles that are rear screw mounted, 3-4 sizes of screws come in 1 bag with the stand offs, a hidden twist tie on the power adapter for the front 120mm fan where others have said the cable was too short, and the front mounting slots for screws are under the handles. The reinforcing bar that you remove to install your motherboard would cover a medium to tall cooler, 3.5inch bays do have 7 slots but one slot is taken up by the wiring front the front IO so an add fits but a full 3.5” drive would not. The case isn’t heavy, has great balance, paint job feels thick enough to not be scratched easily, rear IO shield being there by default was a nice touch. More full size fan slots (unpopulated) would have been nice. So for the price, it looks nice in a rack, wasn’t hard to build in, but again only for the price.

Unit does not mount properly in a rack. Cooling is incredibly poor with provided fan. Build quality is worrying as the front panel has fallen apart in a short amount of time.

Amazing quality and just fits and works. Could use more fan mounts but other than that great case to build in and didn't have to break anything to get it together