Rosewill 2U Server Chassis - 4 Bay Server Case, Supports 4X 3.5" HDD Bays, Micro-ATX Rackmount, 3X 80mm Fans, Metal Rack Mount, 15" Deep Length, RSV-Z2600U

Great choice for my home network! However, height is almost too short for a standard PSU and I had some issues with the pre-installed fans hitting the dust covers. On the bright side, drive bays are individually removable if not needed which improves airflow!

This review pertains to the 2U 4-bay case which is presently described as "Support 4X 3.5 HDD Bays and Micro-ATX". This is technically true as long as you don't install all of them at the same time. If you look at the pictures with the 3.5" HDDs in the drive cages both in the description and the data sheet you should notice something I overlooked. That is THERE IS NO CPU INSTALLED. If you install a Micro ATX motherboard with the CPU socket or RAM on the bottom half of the board, even with a low profile CPU cooler it is basically impossible to install 3.5" disks in the two single-drive cages. There is a cartoon in the product literature that is totally wrong because it shows them fitting together like a jigsaw puzzle. The disks will overhang the bottom of the motherboard. Eventually I was able to stuff in 2x 3.5" disks by rotating the leftmost cage and 2x 2.5" SSDs (which BARELY fit above the cooler) but this totally screwed up all my plans which was supposed to have 4x 3.5" disks in this case. You know, per the description and datasheet. Furthermore the wiring to the front panel was frayed and I didn't notice till I had already discarded all the packaging. I did reach out to Rosewill which had very responsive support. That said, the power switches on the front panel are VERY EASILY bumped by mistake. It's a shame because this could easily be a 5-star case with a few tweaks to the design but some really basic things were overlooked. If you do purchase this case for a server and intend to use all the drive cages I would not go larger than a mini-ITX board. Unfortunately with parts so hard to get these days my choices were limited. Overall the build looks nice but I probably wouldn't buy it again unless the design was updated.

This case could be so much better with a few tweaks by the manufacturer but sadly it's just not that great.First, the good elements: the front panel is really great looking. I've seen too many chassis models that look too "busy" and junky, but this one looks sexy and modern. This case would look good in any rack.Now the bad. I've built many PCs but this is the first case I've ever seen that doesn't have captive slots at the bottom of the case for the PCIe card back panels. The cards only have the normal set screw at the top but there is nothing at the bottom to keep them from bending. Perhaps the theory is that the cards are so close to the motherboard that additional support isn't required, except that in a 2U chassis it's common to use daughter cards that aren't connected the motherboard and therefore need a bottom connection to the frame. Sadly no support is provided by this chassis.Additionally there doesn't seem to be any way to clean out the air filter at the front of the case. This is a fail.I think it's too much of a hassle to send this back for a refund, but I won't be buying any more of these cases. I have been shopping for the right case model from which to build 6-8 systems this year for my business, and sadly the search continues because this case isn't a winner.

I had to drill out three of the HDD cage standoffs out of the 4 units I purchased, because the weld had failed, and the standoff was just spinning with the screw, and was still somehow locked to the chassis. A bit annoying considering these are on the expensive end for a mATX chassis, but it's considered the extreme budget end for a server chassis. Other than that, these are pretty okay. I didn't trust the built-in fans, and replaced with Noctua 80mm redux fans. For PSUs these are Seasonic 550 watt gold. Motherboards are Supermicro X9SCM-F mATX, Xeon E3-1280v2 CPUs, 32GB DDR3 ECC RAM, Supermicro AOC X540-AT2 AOC-STG-I2T 10gig dual port NICs, 4x4TB HDDs, and a PCIe NVMe adapter with 512GB WD Black for cache. It's a 4 node VMware/vSAN cluster. I have a 64GB OS disk in between two of the HDD caddies, and I purchased some thin blue SATA cable bundles for the data disks, which are a bundle of 4, and fit these perfectly without much clutter. I also grabbed some PSU SATA power extenders to make sure I had enough cable. Overall happy with it. They are tricky to fit that much hardware in, but if you take your time and cable manage well, these do pretty good.

If you buy this make sure you get a fully modular PSU and some extra server fans since the ones that came with it are no good and use a molex connector that will require you to use a molex power cable which is nearly impossible to fit. You will need to run the fans at 100% or you risk things melting or the CPU overheating and shutting off. You will also want some of the smallest noctua fans to put on the back to help exhaust the heat since the air intake on the front has to push air past the HDDs and RAM before it gets to the CPU.