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Server cases or BareBones systems

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i'm going to be building a new Intel Dual Quad core file Server, but am looking for a good workable chassis. I will be doing a Tower system and have looked at Tyan (limited products) Asus, SuperMicro, and a few off brands. Does anyone have any suggestions, links, reviews they care to share?
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I've seen the Intel Server Chassis SC5400 Base be used with success on a few V8 systems, but it costs over $800...
The Intel Server Chassis SC5400 family offers an ideal solution for a variety of business environments. With great reliability, wide-ranging scalability, strong manageability, the SC5400 is a solid, cost-effective solution for a range of environments, from small businesses to database servers. Applications needing maximum reliability, serviceability and uptime can benefit from the SC5400LXI model, which integrates fully redundant hot-swap power supplies and fans, and support for 6-drive hot-swap SAS/SATA drives.
The Thermaltake Armor also works well and that is what AMD uses on all their QuadFX system builds.
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Thanks Apop, gave me a couple more options...
This Asus Barebone Server looks pretty sweet too....
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6816110019
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8x Hot Swap HDD bays & LSI SAS controller looks nice 8)

Is this for home? I found all you need is an ATX case with enough bays for a file server, there's no need for a dual proc setup for a file server.
Even a single proc setup is enough for most business setups, since the HDD controller is calculating all the parity. All the CPU needs to do is schedule the requests.

Make for a nice folder though ;)
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Its for a work system, so i dont want to cut corners...
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.a ... 6816116043
(2) http://www.newegg.com/product/product.a ... 6819117121
(5) http://www.newegg.com/product/product.a ... 6822148152

looking at a Tyan Mobo or SuperMicro, still not sure on that and the Case/Barebones....

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