See here: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005885602742.html
Other than the outrageous shipping… it seems interdasting. There are versions with more bays…
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There are better cases with significantly better airflow (cooling!) and probably better build quality as well.
If you really want a unique case, try to find an old 2003-ish Shuttle XPC enclosure. Gut out the 2003-ish mainboard, drill appropriate holes for stand-offs and mount a mITX board in it. AM4 is a good platform choice in this case. Add 32GB RAM, a 6 or better 8 core CPU, replace the 5.25" drive bay with a 4-slot 2.5" SSD adapter and you’re golden for storage. Add a network card for 2.5,5 or even 10Gb/s connectivity, or a small-ish GPU for Plex transcoding.
for that price you could just get a jonsbo case
https://www.amazon.com/N1-Mini-ITX-Chassis-Computer-Aluminum/dp/B09WZLHCZG
https://www.amazon.com/N2-Aluminum-Support-Integrated-Removable/dp/B0BQJ6BCB7?th=1
aliexpress shipping for cases is always expensive because they almost always get destroyed, plus its low volume and I’m pretty sure we still have tarrifs on things like PC cases
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Ah cool I was looking at Jonsbo on Ali, good to know they’re available on newegg. Thanks for the feedback all.
Also going to throw U-NAS into the list, as they do sell their cases separate from their prebuilt systems. I did a N100 build in the 2-bay case they have, but they’ve got a 4 and an 8 bay version as well.
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The shipping really does kill any enthusiasm I had for it at first glance. The form factor isn’t half bad though. Something like a ITX N100 would be a nice fit for something like that.
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I like chenbro
Yeah I know this company from a 12x drive bay 1u server chassis on Craft Computing. Cool to see they make smaller cases too!