Mini-ITX Case that would take ~6 SATA Hard Drives

Question

Thinking about maybe building my own NAS. I would go with Raid 5, and would like maybe about 6 SATA drives:

• There a mini atx case that can hold this many drives (Non-Rack ideally)
• What sort of power will I need?
• Any way this won't be pretty loud?

Solution 1

Even through some time has passed and you most likely already have a case I would recommend a Fractal Design Array R2 which I use for my Network Storage. It takes up to 6 3.5" devices and 1 2.5" device and just looks awesome.

Solution 2

I doubt it's what you're looking for, but most Mini-ITX boards will fit in a standard ATX case.
Most HD's pull around 10w+ each, so an normal Mini-ITX powersupply probably isn't going to cut it.

Comments

[Admin]

I would like to see an answer to this as well. I assume you mean 6 standard hard drives (not laptop drives)?

[Admin]

Ya, I was thinking 3.5 form factor

[Admin]

Hmm.. maybe quietpc.com/us-en-usd/products/pc-cases/fd-array-black

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Or maybe silentpcreview.com/fractal-r2?

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Related: Can someone suggest a mini-ITX motherboard that support 6 drives in a RAID?

[Admin]

I'm doing basically the same thing as soon as WHSv2 comes out and I've been frantically looking for workable boards and cases. Here are a couple boards I've been contemplating: ZOTAC NM10-DTX Atom/Ion, 6 SATA ports, 1 x16 slot, 1 x1 slot Sapphire IPC-AM3DD785G Only 4 SATA ports but AM3 socket so it will take an AMD Athlon II X4 605e 45W TDP proc. Zotac H55ITX-A-E 6 SATA port goodness, all the advantages of the LGA 1156 chipset, overly power hungry i3/i5 required. GIGABYTE GA-2AIEV-RH Only AM2+ but will supposedly still support the AM3 605e, 6 SATA ports, PCIe x16 slot but only supports x8.

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Plenty of other differences, some have Native Wifi, some have add on wifi via a mini PCIe slot, some support DDR2 others DDR3, different onboard GFX, support for 5.1/7.1+1, etc. I'm looking ideally for a true AM3 board with full DDR3 support, 6+ (7+ really but I doubt that will ever happen) SATA ports, DTX would be nice with an x1 and an x16 slot, 7.1+ support for streaming audio through a wifi home audio setup, descent integrated GFX would be nice too. Of course I'll probably never get most of these things but I can dream can't I?