What cases have the most SSD bays?

[mailalan]

I'm looking for a case to build a large home storage server. All the drives would be SSD's in some sort of RAID configuration. Which cases hold the most drives? I'm thinking large numbers of drives like 48 or more.

 

[Mattz982]

Get a 4U server case like the one used in LinusTechTips servers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0qtu5NXhuQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfpzmAGjYqg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHKRcSYPwPE

 

[KnowledgeCore]

Many cases that come with "full" sleds for drives are compatible with both 2.5" and 3.5" mounting in every sled (as apposed to cases that use "rails").. That beng said, there are cheap adapters that will give you 2 X 2.5" SSD mounts in each 3.5" bay. Those are the way to go in terms of maximizing your SSD mounting without any "cheats." (though DarkSable is absolutely correct, there's no reason they absolutely have to be on an official mount. )

The Arc Mini R2 from fractal design has native mounting for up to 8X SSDs (6x sleds and 2 positions behind the motherboard tray). With adapters for the sleds, it could mount 14XSSDs. That's a microATX case...
The Midi (mid tower) version could do 10X SSDs native, or 18 with the doublers.

 

[Mattz982]

Many cases that come with "full" sleds for drives are compatible with both 2.5" and 3.5" mounting in every sled (as apposed to cases that use "rails").. That beng said, there are cheap adapters that will give you 2 X 2.5" SSD mounts in each 3.5" bay. Those are the way to go in terms of maximizing your SSD mounting without any "cheats." (though DarkSable is absolutely correct, there's no reason they absolutely have to be on an official mount. )

The Arc Mini R2 from fractal design has native mounting for up to 8X SSDs (6x sleds and 2 positions behind the motherboard tray). With adapters for the sleds, it could mount 14XSSDs. That's a microATX case...
The Midi (mid tower) version could do 10X SSDs native, or 18 with the doublers.

This is all good and true, but with 48 surely he should get a server rack?

 

[KnowledgeCore]

Many cases that come with "full" sleds for drives are compatible with both 2.5" and 3.5" mounting in every sled (as apposed to cases that use "rails").. That beng said, there are cheap adapters that will give you 2 X 2.5" SSD mounts in each 3.5" bay. Those are the way to go in terms of maximizing your SSD mounting without any "cheats." (though DarkSable is absolutely correct, there's no reason they absolutely have to be on an official mount. )

The Arc Mini R2 from fractal design has native mounting for up to 8X SSDs (6x sleds and 2 positions behind the motherboard tray). With adapters for the sleds, it could mount 14XSSDs. That's a microATX case...
The Midi (mid tower) version could do 10X SSDs native, or 18 with the doublers.

This is all good and true, but with 48 surely he should get a server rack?

Well, I think if he can afford that many SSD's, then yes. He should get one.