Looking for a cheap ~30 drive case or solution to my janky setup

Hey there! I have an X99 platform with an i7-6950x with an EVGA Supernova G2 1300W PSU with Windows as my secondary PC or main “server” for game servers, NAS, etc.

This PC has 25 WD/HGST hard drives and 6 SATA SSDs with SnapRAID, using two Dell H310 Perc cards and a crappy 4 bay USB docker.

And here’s where the jank and my problems start; currently these drives are located in 4 slot interior expansion bays all wall mounted around a regular PC case that’s also wall mounted. But I can’t only use 0.5m 8087>4xSATA breakout cables so I have a couple using 1 meter long Delock cables.

Over the years I got Current Pending Sector Count errors on a couple of drives that were resolved with replacing those SATA cables. But now after a move I got even more and even Uncorrectable Sector Count even on short SATA cables. 5-6 drives daisy-chained per molex/sata is also not ideal but I would think that would affect all the drives on a chain not just one.

Long story short I’m looking for a well ventillated case to house all these drives that I can move my existing PC into. I don’t really want a big and loud server or a new NAS, just using my existing setup with better cabling.

What options do I have other than 3D printing a whole new case with the current setup in mind?

Current Pending Sector Count and Uncorrectable Sector Count errors are completely unrelated to cabling.

These events indicate that some sectors on the HDD disks turned bad and that it’s time to replace the HDD.

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Oh, you’re more than likely right! The SATA cable issues caused C7 - UltraDMA CRC Error Count, SnapRAID just reports an overall error count that caused my confusion.

The errors you quoted are completely new since my move about a month ago. They were handled very very carefully but apparently not carefully enough… These were offline for like 2 weeks and since two drives started the same errors and climbing.

So I guess my janky system isn’t at fault, but a couple of my drives are on the way off and something screwed some of them during moving. These are over 6 year old 12-14TB WD Golds and HGST Ultrastars.