Aluminium 1u Mini ITX Server rackmount Chassis,Black

The case itself is pretty will built, can handle ITX boards with a Flex style PSU inside it, and has space for either 2.5/3.5 drives and/or PCIe single spot cards via riser cables. Have mine setup for a Pf Sense based Router on an old i5 4th gen Unrelated but dammit I just saw the newer version now has USBc port on front AND costs $40 less than what I paid 😭. Y'all are living the dream now. Easy 5-stars given the price point its at now, was about to give it 4-star since I assumed it was still 80+tax POINTS TO TAKE NOTE OF: 👉This case does not use those horrible blue indicator LED's ANYWHERE! Rare win for cheap cases. 👉THE STOCK FANS ARE BAD AND YOU SHOULDN'T USE THEM. They're very loud thanks to the semi-restrictive front panel intake and cheap fan design, and not efficient at all at moving air. Just do yourself a favor and turn off your brain, buy 1-3 Noctua 40mm fans, and don't think deeper into it. You'll thank me later 👉No dust filters! The front panel captures some amount of dust but other than that its straight through 👉With Noctua fans, it could totally work for those CPU coolers that servers use which rely on air moving over them rapidly. The front has enough opening to suck air in and rear has a lot of open grill to push it 👉If you need to take off front panel for any reason, such as replacing fans, take your time and be prepared to get annoyed by it. 👉Your cooler options are SUPER MICRO compared to other cases. There's basically the passive copper ones + the intale Noctuas blowing air as fast as they can , or certain models of SuperMicro coolers that have a low profile blower fan attached to them. There might be other options for newer CPU platforms. For reference, the tiny thin rinky dink intel stock cooler is too call to fit in this case, along with most other Low Profile coolers. 👉Using both the PCIe slot cutout as well as storage drives can get tight depending on what expansion card you plan to use so double check heights Overall happy with it even though mines the older gen and cost more. Fits into a rack, way cheaper than literally every other 1U alternative, half depth means its super versatile in terms of non-rack spots you can dump it onto, and someone with high amount of money and low amount of sanity could likely shove a RTX4070 and R7 7950x in here if they dont mind server-like fan noise, or super funky watercooling setup with those rare 1U radiators

This case is serving as a PBS server. I made some executive decision for drive lay out and it paid off. The PSU has shorted cable but still has a hard time keep the case flush; because of the extra wires. Be warned, 1u's do not fit standard I/o shield and this one comes with a mesh grate to cut to fit; I left it open for better air flow.

Nice looking, solid 1u case. Depending on your specific power supply, you may have only just enough room to accommodate the cables. Including the appropriate right-angle PCIe riser would have saved some additional guesswork, but the price still hard to beat.

It's basically all stamped sheetmetal, but at least it's solid. Also everything rackmount is overpriced and this was the cheapest shallow depth case I could find. Points added for the included rack screw converter plates, but deducted because the included blank card cover is silver instead of black (when the rest of the outside is black, not that anyone really sees the back but that's not the point.) Also the cover for the back panel (if no motherboard is installed) is amazingly flimsy, and there is none included for if no power supply is installed (which seems like less of a use case though so that's understandable.) Front ports aren't USB-3 (or USB-C at this point) either. Would buy again for the one specific application that I need it for, but not if the price went up.

the small form is nice, the case feels solid and comes with a fair bit of hardware. i would replace the fans with something quieter. the placement of the fans isnt exactly great. on the mini itx board i installed the main connection is right where the fans are blocking air flow front to rear. if the connector was in a different spot my ram would be blocking it, so not the best place for the fans, i was able to mount a 3.5 inch drive no problem.