JONSBO N2 Black NAS ITX Case 5+1 Disk Bays Mini Aluminum Case, Built-in 12cm Fan, SFX Power Bite (L150mm Max.), Support 65mm CPU Cooler, Integrated Upper Cover Removable,Black

Awesome case for the money. Has enough airflow to keep my drives cool in a closet with bad airflow. I would have preferred a tool less method for mounting the drives but that’s nitpicking since I only change drives about once a year.

Construction on this case is awesome. This was my first Mini-ITX build for a home media server running Unraid. Small footprint and not too difficult to work in even with the limited space

A surprisingly great case for Home servers and NAS systems. I was skeptical, but saw a few good videos of NAS builds using this case.For the price it has pretty solid capacity for drives and a mini itx system in the top.I think Jonsbo made the right decision to keep the HDDs on the bottom with the hotter main board system at the top.The rear drive bay fan placement leaves some to be desired. I immediately tossed the thick metal filter that suffocated the hard drive fan.

This is a great NAS case. Quality made, well thought out, and looks beautiful.

This case is great—well-designed, well-machined parts, fairly intuitive assembly. It is small, so make sure your board fits and cables are routed early on. Any mobos with sideways SATA connectors are probably too tight to fit. (I tried to repurpose an old Z170 board first.) I only have two critiques: the instruction manual is a bit limited, and there's a few quirks not explained. The hard drive mounting pieces aren't symmetrical, so make sure they're oriented with the thicker side against the drives. (Look to the handles to see the correct thickness.) Additionally, there is no fan control on the board intended for the exhaust fan in back, so reroute that to a system fan header on your motherboard if you don't want that constantly running at full speed. Beyond that, it's great for up to five drives with one extra SSD, and most ITX NAS boards like a CWWK i3-N305 or similar fit perfectly.

This is the best small factor NAS case there is. I tried a few and this is leagues above the others. Build quality is great, almost all brushed metal construction. Style is timeless. Easy access to hot-swap drive bays. Good separation of mobo and drives. Good airflow. Easy to build. And takes a tiny amount of space. The only things that would make it even better are: 1 - A better built-in fan for the drives, I swapped it for a silent arctic cooling one. 2 - Slightly better layout that may allow for more space between the drives and fan, and perhaps the PSU. But this might come at the expense of the small size.

This houses my DIY NAS. It's a perfect small-footprint case for the job. With the HKUXZR motherboard this runs headless in a closet in my office and is exactly what I needed for the job it was purchased to do. Easy to install everything (motherboard, power, drives). Easy to open and even easier to swap drives if needed.

Overall I like this case except for the noisy, slightly non-standard fan.Pros:- For a small case it has very good support for neat cable routing.- Most of the case is assembled with small screws so you can easily partially disassemble it to help routecables in best positions.- The power supply can be mounted with the fan facing either the louvers on the case side or inwardtoward the case interior. This is handy at least in my case where the power supply fan was thenoisiest fan (after replacing the case fan) and orienting so it faced the interior of the case made itmuch quieter.Cons:- The case fan is very noisy for a case that is obviously designed to be attractive and used in an occupiedroom or office. And while it is a 120mm fan, it is only 15mm thick instead of the normal 25mm ofstandard PC case fans. This limits the options for quieter replacements. I did replace it with aNoctua fan the same size but it runs at a higher speed than their really quiet case fans and istherefor somewhat noisier. It would have been nice if they had made the case a minor 10mmdeeper so it fit a standard fan. As it is, there is not enough clearance with the cables to allow a25mm fan to fit.- A minor annoyance is that the front panel board has both USB-A and USB-C 3.0 connectors, butit seems that most low power motherboards that would likely be used in a NAS system do not havea compatible USB-C motherboard connector (some don't even have a USB-A 3.0 connector) andthe heavy cables from these are difficult to route, especially hiding an unused one. Fortunately,the connectors for these are easily removed from the front panel board with two small screwseach if they are not needed.As I said, a pretty nice case overall. The hot plug drives seem to fit and seat quite nicely.