Hello friends,
I'm trying to find a NAS purposed case that supports up to 8 drives, ATX motherboard, and hot swap drives. But it seems like they are all quite expensive - upwards of $200+ with stuff like the JONSBO N5 being a whopping $264.
I can't fathom how an array of HDD cages and SATA board would make it $150 more than a typical computer case. Surely their profit margins are massive with such an upsell such as this? Where is the market competition? And of course, do you have any recommendations?
I'm trying to take all the parts from my old build to create a multi-purpose NAS, opnsense, server-hosting, website-hosting, screen recording machine. But it seems a bit ridiculous to pay (for example) $264 for a case - something which quite frankly costs more than any other part in this build.