Reddit reviews Rosewill 3 x 5.25-Inch to 4 x 3.5-Inch Hot-swap SATAIII/SAS Hard Disk Drive Cage - Black (RSV-SATA-Cage-34)

Bam! $35 (with rebate) with 10x external 5.25 bays

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811235039


Keep it easy and add in hot swap 4 into 3 adapters as needed. This would support up to 12 drives all hot swappable without opening the case:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DGZ42SM/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

It's nice and simple but i urge you to not keep your drives like this in those brackets.

GEt yourself some hard drive cages like these which will both isolate your drives and allow you to swap them out a lot more easily as well as keep them cooler.

Your current setup is a AWFUL for hard drive vibration which can cause premature drive failure as they are ALL vibrating together and thus, add up.

Mediasonic has some low-cost RAID/JBOD boxes. Amazon link

edit: Or you could get a SATA port expander and a drive cage if you've got room in your PC case.

edit2: How to combine multiple hard drives into one volume on Windows 10

But at some point you've got to look at the cost of a new 8TB WD Eaystore on sale for $160, versus spending any more money on making those 1TB drives useable. The best bang for the buck is a new 8TB external, second best is scrounging up some free PC hardware and hacking together a low-cost-no-cost PC.

I have had one for over a year with no issues. Drive mount and function perfectly. Only real complaint I hear is that the fans don't move much air, might swap them out one day.

https://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-5-25-Inch-3-5-Inch-Hot-swap-SATAIII/dp/B00DGZ42SM

I'm not an expert on backplanes by any means, but I don't think there are any standards for them across manufacturers. Each is made to fit a specific chassis.

If you want to avoid proprietary, you could get something like this. It will fit several different board form factors. I believe you can remove the front drive cages, which essentially leaves you with a load of 5.25" bays that you can load up with a couple of these, which are essentially self contained, four slot SATA backplanes that fit in 3 5.25" bays.

Again, I'm no expert, but I've seen some posts of similar setups as this and am considering doing this myself if I ever have the space for a rack.

Just a antec 900 with these

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/B00DGZ42SM/ref=ya_aw_oh_bia_dp?ie=UTF8&psc=1

$200 with rails:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0055EV30W/

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DGZ42SM/

https://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-RSV-R28LX-Bearing-Sliding-Rackmount/dp/B0795Y3QM3/

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Or $300 for 12 hot swap bays: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00N9CXGSO/ref=twister_B079C7QGNY

https://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-RSV-R28LX-Bearing-Sliding-Rackmount/dp/B0795Y3QM3/

Before ceph:
Two bay dns323 with raid1 and two 3TB disks. Power supply died recently.

With ceph:
I have one server, for now, with three 3TB disks and one SSD for the journal in a hotswap bay. I have ProxMox installed in the server and used that to manage ceph instead of ceph-deploy.

I created a ceph filesystem with one disk and mounted the raid to copy data to ceph. At this point my pool size is 1 (no replication) to allow a healthy state. My crush map is set to allow replication across disks instead of requiring replication across hosts. After the data was migrated, I added the other two disks to ceph and set the pool size to 2 for replication (raid5 equivalent?). It took some time for the data (~1.5TB) to balance out over the disks. I now mount ceph via fuse on my virtual machines. Still figuring out how to automount on boot as there's a bug in my installed version.

I've had some help in understanding how to set this up. I did some initial testing using manual deployment, ceph-deploy, and then proxmox; scrapping my progress each time till I learned how each worked.

I had some trouble using rbd images for my end use. During testing I created a 1TB image, mounted it in opemMediaVault, put a filesystem on it, and shared that to my network. I then ran into the issue or resizing. Expanding the image is easy, expanding the filesystem while it was mounted was not easy. I wanted something I could add more disk or another server to and have more space instantly. I wanted to get rid of doing data migrations to larger disk pools.

I'm currently using 3 of these in my home file server. Works great with no issues. Allows for storage density like /u/Dstanding mentioned as well as all drives are easy swapped in/out as needed.

2x5.25": https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01BMJ1Y3O

3x5.25": https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DGZ42SM/

I just added this to my tower, it seemed like the best trade off of 2x5.25 bays for 3x3.5 HDDs, has a fan and removable/washable filter. Fitment was perfect, also comes with a bracket for 4x2.5 drives if you wanted. If you need hotswap ability though I'd look at something like what you have, or I thought of buying this one.

Those just have three of these in them

So you still need a cable per drive.

What about a DIY "disk shelf"?

• PSU: Any ATX PSU will work, just do the jumper trick to power it on without a motherboard.
  
• Hot-swap bays: tons of these around, but these Rosewill 4x bays aren't too expensive
  
• External HBA like this one and pair with as many miniSAS-to-SATA breakout cables as you need for drives.
  
  You could configure those hot-swap bays however you like, from just sitting on a rack shelf to building a custom box to house them in.

1. Yeah, I think Rosewill may be able to help you or alternatively, just found a regular 4u cover (doesn't seem too fancy)
   
   
2. The 4x3.5 are these (https://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-5-25-Inch-3-5-Inch-Hot-swap-SATAIII/dp/B00DGZ42SM/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1543038230&sr=1-1&keywords=3x5.25+to+4x3.5), I can't find the replacement sleds for anything less than 50% of the cost (https://www.ebay.com/itm/Rosewill-RSV-SATA-Cage-34-Hard-Disk-Drives-HOT-SWAP-TRAY-ONLY-WORKS/143022584851?hash=item214ccf7413:g:c6AAAOSw-HRb9a3N:rk:4:pf:0)

I have a Coolermaster HAF X and I threw one of these in there. I currently have 9 3.5" hard drives and an SSD just free-ballin' it in there.

I like it since I can fit my huge Noctua NH-D14, my larger GPU, and all my other PCI cards in case along with the drives and everything stays coolish.

Edit: Oh yeah my two hot swap bays on my case are open too. I might jam two more drives in there sometime.

Those caddies are actually from the Whitebox server. This is the cage that is pictured with the 2.5" drive.

I have to get some adapters for the 2.5" SSD's I plan on putting in the supermicro

For ten comfy drives, Fractal Design Define R5
and two of these.

For eleven drives, three toasty, Fractal Design Define R5, and this.

For twelve comfy drives, Lian-Li PC-A79.

For thirteen drives, four comfy: Corsair 750D, this, and this.

For fourteen drives, five toasty: Corsair 750D, this, and this.

These are the rosewills in question: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DGZ42SM/

You could also get some of these with molex -> sata adapters, but seriously be absolutely sure they are crimped: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01BMJ1WD6

Does your case have free 5.25" bays? You can get a hard drive cage like this for it.

TLDNR; Without having more info on what I described in the first paragraph. I'd say just buy a couple 10TB Easystores on sale ($180ea) and use your current SBCs and smaller server setups. After I wrote all of this I saw that you are from AUS(I think), so no clue if you can get close to $18 per TB in your area, but prices are coming down every year so sometimes better to just save $$$. It is super fun to think about a new and more powerful setup, plus buying it and putting it together, but as you can see I've done a lot of this thinking already. You are also probably feeling guilty that you have to make use of all your 2TBs, but lots of little HDDs do require more electricity to power up and cool. You need storage density and you cant get around that. Upgrade to 10TB and use the 2TB as a cold storage (backup). You are at a heck of a crossroads because the cost to go from SBCs to a "Proper" server plus buying storage isnt a cheap one. Currently there are limited stepping stones, but more powerful SBCs and Ryzen Embedded are here and on the way so wait if possible. Either way you go, you will spend more money and use up storage faster than you planned... The more powerful SBCs arent always cheap either, once you factor in cost of: memory card, power supply, case, possible heatsink/extra heat sinks, a fan, etc. Their lower price starts creeping into the middle range...


What brand, how many, and how long have the 2TBs been powered on for? It sounds like you are currently swapping out the 2TBs for others depending on what you want to watch and on which HDD it is? Do you have any projected storage numbers and what is your current and future budget? You mentioned that you have a small dedicated server? Is that another SBC or what is with that setup and how many sata ports? I'd forgo the transcoding ideas and nix buying any sort of new "Server" options. Focus on reusing what you have or going with a "Used" setup, so you can start saving that money for when 8TB or 10TB Easystores go on sale.

IMO for a true new build you'd want to price in ECC RAM, UPS, and I personally prefer a case that has hot swap access to HDDs. The Rosewill that meemo linked cant be beat for the price especially since it comes with 7 fans, but it requires extra steps to access the HDDs (internally only), which may be fine for you. There is Mediasonic (JBOD version only) that you could plug into your SBC, but that technically isnt hot swappable either, plus it is USB 3.1 to USB-C which isnt the worst but it isnt the best... I know you wanted to get away from SBCs, but if you disable transcoding there are some SBCs that use SATA to SATA connections that are very viable. Any SBC or standalone storage that uses USB is a potential risk, since USB can suffer connection issues when doing rebuilding, parity, and scrubbing maintenance (same if your power goes out, hence a need for UPS). Helios4 is a time restricted option, since they only open up orders once or twice a year (they are currently taking orders). *I saw a post saying that since the Helios4 is a 32bit processor, so it is limited to 16TB volumes. You get 2GB ECC + 4x SATA and I believe you can use any HDD size with that (double check tho), so 4 separate 10TB volumes (4x$180sale=$720+tax), not including parity... I'm not sure how the 32bit and the 16TB volume limit effect drive pooling... I gotta research more into that. I'm not familiar with the UnRaid, FreeNAS, or the other options that you mentioned, but OpenMediaVault4 has MergerFS drive pooling and Snapraid plugin, you could run 3x storage HDD and 1x parity or you could forgo parity for now. If you prefer Windows (You can also run omv4 on windows in a VM) there is Stablebit Drivepool (Not free) for pooling and then Snapraid (not completely novice friendly) for parity. Depending on the HDD type you could reuse the discarded Easystore enclosures and put your 2TB drives in there (still USB connection). If they are a different brand (non WD/HGST) I think you have to desolder something on the Easystore board? I lost the link on how to do that. You could also just keep the 2TB as cold storage backups, but that still carries a risk, but it's cheaper. You could also get 2nd Helios, but for about the same price you could use that money on a 10TB. That would replace 5x of your 2TB drives... Not too mention the extra electricity to power and cool 5x drives vs 1x drive... As you can see, storage density starts coming into play here, big time.
UPS https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00429N18S/
Mediasonic https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078YQHWYW/
Helios4 https://shop.kobol.io/collections/frontpage/products/helios4-full-kit-2gb-ecc-3rd-batch-pre-order?variant=18881501528137
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/as17od/helios4_batch_3_available_for_preorder/

There are other SATA SBCs that you could use and you could also do a janky setup and put the SATA SBCs inside a hot swappable case like this Silverstone one. There are other cases, but this is the only name that came to mind. This case also doesnt have any power supply or fans to cool the HDDs so there will be extra cost there, plus you'll need a power supply, PLUS a way to turn on your power supply (with a power board), since that SBC setup wont have a motherboard. You can also make your own "Dumb" JBOD HDD enclosure and connect that to your mini server. Another option to SBCs is the ASRock cpu+mobo line: J3455-ITX, J4105-ITX, annd J5005-ITX. The issue with this that it appears you are still limited to 4x SATA or other variations of these boards have a PCIe 2.0 x16 slot at x1 or x2 transfer lanes/speed instead of x8 or x16... Also you have to factor in the price of ram and a mini PICO power supply. There is a subreddit+website that focuses on used parts for cheap server setups, but you might want to verify the power consumption of those setups when they are idling. With the NAS killer option, you gotta make sure all of the parts are still available on ebay or refurb sites, plus make sure you have time to build your setup to verify everything is working plus stress test it before the return window closes to weed out any weak used parts.
Silverstone https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IAELTAI/
HDD enclosure option https://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-5-25-Inch-3-5-Inch-Hot-swap-SATAIII/dp/B00DGZ42SM/
Power Board https://www.amazon.com/Super-Micro-Computer-Supermicro-Cse-ptjbod-cb2/dp/B008FQZHZE
J3455-ITX https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=13-157-728
https://www.serverbuilds.net/nas-killer-v30/

Another option if you really want transcoding and a more powerful "Server" would be a Dell Optiplex 7010, which are used business computers that are "Refurbished", but I think they just take them from that company and wipe the hard drive, nothing else. The Minitower Desktop version is roomier than the slightly cheaper SFF (SmallFormFactor) version, which might be important if you want to swap out the power supply, watch the youtube video to get an idea of what you are getting into. Since a cheap power supply is a weak point plus a potential hazard I'd recommend swapping in a new power supply, but you could risk it with its current power supply. Everything else should last for a good while. You'll also need to install a HBA card. You can get Genuine used cards that were in good working order or you could get a new knock off from China. Both options are viable, but personally I prefer the used option. Theartofserver, ebay seller, also has a youtube channel, so I purchased from him, but I have also purchased from other sellers and got good working parts (I think Ebay still has the most honest and accurate rating system out there?). Since the Optiplex doesnt have room for internal HDDs then you are left with a few options with various HBA cards (internal vs external), expander cards, and adapter setups (SFF-8087 to SFF-8088). If you want it to look "Proper" there will be a lot of wasted money on 2x adapters (1x Optiplex + 1x external HDD enclosure) and an extra SFF-8088 cable between the two. I'd just go janky with it and get a longer reverse breakout cable of 3.3feet (4x SATA to 1x SFF-8087), which should be long enough to go from your external HDDs setup into the Optiplex case and internally connected to the HBA card, like the popular 9201-8i. The janky part being that you'll have the reverse breakout cable snaking directly into each case, instead of plugging into an adapter in the back.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01K0GNUOG/
https://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters-Internal-Breakout-SFF-8087/dp/B018YHS9GM
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Genuine-LSI-6Gbps-SAS-HBA-LSI-9201-8i-9211-8i-P20-IT-Mode-ZFS-FreeNAS-unRAID/162958581156
Single adapter https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816133055
Double adapter https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01GPD9QEQ/
SFF-8080 cable https://www.amazon.com/Norco-Technologies-C-SFF8088-External-SFF-8088/dp/B003J9CZCK/

i know this isnt particularly on topic but i have two of these in my home server and i love them. just wire up the power and data to the cage and you can easily add/change drives without any issue. the drive slots also support 2.5 inch as well.

Also available at amazon.ca

https://www.amazon.ca/Rosewill-5-25-Inch-3-5-Inch-Hot-swap-SATAIII/dp/B00DGZ42SM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1473877719&sr=8-1&keywords=cage+34

Yeah. It's a Rosewill 3 x 5.25-Inch to 4 x 3.5-Inch Hot-swap cage. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DGZ42SM/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_3FLjDbDN2ECSM

I saw someone else recommend the Navepoint rails, so that's probably where I'll end up once I'm ready to rack it. Many thanks for the tip!

Rosewill also sells a 4-bay hotswap module that you can reconfigure into this case as this guy did, so I went ahead and ordered one of those as well.

Buy this

And 3 of these

You can move your compaq's components into it and maybe get a couple of SATA PCIe cards. Use FreeNAS that will let you use RAIDZ and it has a plex server package too.

This?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DGZ42SM/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1

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What about power, cpu, ram and your MB?

Jeez, I can't imagine how cramped a 12bay midtower would be to work on. Not a midtower, but this is what I use: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B008O2HOI2 [CM Storm Stryker - Full Tower SGC-5000W-KWN1] Works great. I ended up putting https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DGZ42SM Rosewill 4 x 3.5-Inch Hot-swap cage to help w/the hotswap portion. Works great. Good luck with whatever you decide!

Hi what is this and is there a model that could accommodate 2-4 3tb hdds?

I have one of theses laying around http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DGZ42SM/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Would this suit your fancy per chance?


https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DGZ42SM/ref=sspa_dk_detail_9?psc=1&pd_rd_i=B00DGZ42SM&pd_rd_wg=T5vWT&pd_rd_r=2KHDRTW8HA0B3PZ7KD3H&pd_rd_w=j7ekP

Here they are on Amazon

And here they are on Newegg. Newegg actually owns Rosewill, which is a rebrand of Sans Digital. So if you see Sans Digital products, they typically will work with your Rosewill stuff.

Like just a cage like this?

https://www.amazon.ca/Rosewill-5-25-Inch-3-5-Inch-Hot-swap-SATAIII/dp/B00DGZ42SM

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I have one of these in my rosewill 4u rackmount. I *think* this fits into those ikea CD bookshelves for a DIY option.

Any case with 3x 5.25 front panel will accommodate something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-5-25-Inch-3-5-Inch-Hot-swap-SATAIII/dp/B00DGZ42SM/

So even the Antec Three Hundred Two can hold 6 internal + 4 hot swap = 10 total.

If you really want it:

Case: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAD6F5RY5624

With 9 x 5.25" externals you can get 3 x https://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-5-25-Inch-3-5-Inch-Hot-swap-SATAIII/dp/B00DGZ42SM/ref=pd_lpo_vtph_147_bs_t_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=2EEY6BFY0HG7B2M7EFTP

Which nets you 12 hot swappable external 3.5" drives on the front of a massive consumer case....

....just takes some time/money/patience to put it all together.

If you have 3 extra 5.25" bays in the front of your computer you could slap this bad boy in there and BAM! Problem solved.

Yeah that's actually a pretty decent machine for a simple home server. You could run FreeNAS or Openfiler or OpenMediaVault on there pretty easily. The RAID configuration you're proposing is perfectly fine. You could then put the two RAID volumes into one LVM group to make one big LVM volume, if you want.

One thing I worry about is the available SATA ports. The specs don't list what's available but I'll assume it's four ports. If you want to add more drives, you'll need a SATA controller card, and it looks like there's only one PCIe x16 slot and one regular PCI slot. You'd want to use the PCIe slot for a SATA controller for its throughput, but the video card is likely occupying that slot, and if there's no on-board video, you'll have to install a PCI video card or use the PCI slot for the SATA controller or sacrifice video altogether, all of which seem problematic.

If there's not enough room inside for all four drives, you could install something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-5-25-Inch-3-5-Inch-Hot-swap-SATAIII/dp/B00DGZ42SM/

Also, this is probably the correct sub for what you're asking.

https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/58ens9/jbob_just_a_bunch_of_boxes_netwerkz_mini/

Are you stuck on 3.5" drives?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DGZ42SM <~ on a shelf ..fab a slide lock.

-Or-

24 7mm SSD drives in 1U is easily doable.
12 15mm HDD is possible but start think of creative cooling.

You say you are a DYI kind of person ... expand your mind and get to work.

I'm looking forward to it.

https://www.amazon.ca/Rosewill-5-25-Inch-3-5-Inch-Hot-swap-SATAIII/dp/B00DGZ42SM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1539729125&sr=8-1&keywords=rosewill+cage&dpID=41nhGgaXnzL&preST=_SX300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch

Trios of them are also included in certain Rosewill rack cases, but seems you can get them on their own. I hope it fits. Also I'll probs swap in a Noctua fan on it.

If like a External hard drive enclosure it has a PCB built into it then interface with the SATA and power on its own, that’s what I would love or a build in Hot swappable bay.

I think this will get me close to that now that I know what I’m looking for.

Thanks.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DGZ42SM/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_307xCb0KRAHT6

I think the reviews adequately describe the product. I have 6 of them and have no problems with any. Not quite industrial quality but for consumer they are fine. I swapped out the fans for Noctua's running off the motherboard and are virtually silent with adequate cooling (~30-35C).

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Edit: I buy from amazon RSV-SATA-Cage-34

I have the Rosewill in the L4500 version and it's hard to beat for the price, haven't had any problems with it. You're not getting any external hot swap bays with it, but you can purchase the RSV-SATA-Cage-34 to it later to add that capability. They also have a more expensive version of the case that already has 3 of these cages installed.

Oh, I hadn't at all thought about the issue of triggering the PSU. I'm researching now if the PSU of the Gen8 would be strong enough to power one or even multiple additional hard drives. I think i'd like to avoid Molex to SATA (lose all your data), but have found external enclosures which would take Molex, e.g. this one.

Just rebuilt my server in a phanteks Enthoo Pro (http://www.phanteks.com/Enthoo-Pro.html) case and love it. If you get the Roswell cage (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DGZ42SM/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_16mjDb80Q86DD) it’ll hold 10x 3.5” drives and has separate mounts for up to 4 ssd’s. Also fits a Noctura air cooler no problem. Same with massive cards.

I've got a Thor V2 and when I move my unraid system into the case, I'll be adding two Rosewill HDD Cages (second link). This will put me at a capacity of 10 drives, it is also HUGE. It has plenty of room for two AIOS (140 back, 240 top) and as many PCI cards as you want.

My case: https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16811147053

HDD Cage: https://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-5-25-Inch-3-5-Inch-Hot-swap-SATAIII/dp/B00DGZ42SM

In this case, Rosewill RSV-SATA-Cage-34.

I got an iStarUSA S35 with a trayless drive cage, it will probably run about 170'ish. I like it a lot, but you'll have to go another route on the PSU as it takes a Flex PSU. Not a huge deal, they are on Amazon, NewEgg, etc

The tray less model I got... https://www.amazon.com/iStarUSA-S-35-DE4BL-3-5-Inch-Trayless-mini-ITX/dp/B00EC32KEA/ref=sr_1_24?keywords=istarusa+s-35&qid=1564973279&s=gateway&sr=8-24

A trayed version is also on Amazon as well, but I have no experience with it. You could save a little coin and go this route:

https://www.amazon.com/iStarUSA-S-35EX-Compact-3x5-25-inch-Mini-ITX/dp/B017S6RIU8/ref=sr_1_18?keywords=istarusa+s-35&qid=1564973279&s=gateway&sr=8-18

Then buy this...

https://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-5-25-Inch-3-5-Inch-Hot-swap-SATAIII/dp/B00DGZ42SM/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=rosewill+drive+cage&qid=1564973142&s=gateway&sr=8-2

My friend uses that drive cage in a generic tower case so he has hot swap, and he likes it.

I have the NZXT source 210 good case, but add fans to the drive cages. I also got a 3x5.25 bay to 4 x 3.5 adapter to bring my drive count up to 13 (8 Disk in the cages + free hanging Boot SSD + 4 in the bay adapter). Get the rosewill bay adapter not the silverstone one doesn't fit well, not sure if i can post links

EDIT: links added

Found this Rosewill 3 x 5.25-Inch to 4 x 3.5-Inch Hot-swap SATAIII/SAS Hard Disk Drive Cage - Black (RSV-SATA-Cage-34) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DGZ42SM/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_AAJJAb1XBMNTH

Think it maybwork. Need to make sure I have enough ports to have all 7 hooked up at once.

maybe get a cheaper case with 3 5.25in bays and get one of these for the 4 drives you'll want to hot swap https://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-5-25-Inch-3-5-Inch-Hot-swap-SATAIII/dp/B00DGZ42SM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1483677538&sr=8-2&keywords=hot+swap+bays

I have 3 of these: https://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-5-25-Inch-3-5-Inch-Hot-swap-SATAIII/dp/B00DGZ42SM

No complaints for 3.5 inch drives but I had a SSD in one of the bays temporarily that was giving I/O errors that were remedied when I moved them to a 2.5 inch bay.