I’m fed up of trying to find a solid 1U rackmount chassis for pfSense purposes. I’ve seen a handful of decent 2U chassis with front mounted 5.25" bays, and I keep wondering… where can I score a mount for a PCI-Express expansion card like a NIC, because that’s really all I need front mount.
I scoured the internet and found this… “DB525-PCIED2XD01” however I have no idea where to order nor why it’s system specific (and only x4?) so I have to believe something exists out there for my needs. Tired of running a 1U with the top off to adequately cool my NICs
I think I’d look for a ‘blank drive bay’ or ‘drive bay tray’ and mount an Oculink PCIe 4.0 to PCIe x16 circuit board in there. Not too janky, nor too expensive, good enough for Intel X550 era PCIe 3.0x4 NICs.