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Fractal Node 304
Mini-ITX
Question about Fractal Node 304
I am actually looking for a ventilated box for my equipment. But that doesn't seem to be available. Is there room for an HDD, a Synology NAS and router in this enclosure? And a small power supply for the fans
Helpful answer
If you take out all the hard drive cages, you already have a pretty big space in the enclosure. What kind of NAS is it? I meant a 2Bay NAS with a smaller router could fit.
Cooling shouldn't be a problem either, the enclosure is really super ventilated. I currently have 5 WD Velociraptor HDDs at 10'000Rpm, an SSD, a motherboard with Core i3 CPU and a PCIe RAID controller plus a 300Watt power supply in this enclosure and all temperatures are perfectly fine.
With the router, however, you should definitely lead the WLAN antennas out of the case. Otherwise, the metal box will shield an extremely large amount of transmission power.
Fractal Node 304 is a nicely made server case for a Mini ITX/DTX motherboard and an ATX power supply with a total of 6 disks. There are some pictures/movies on the web that show the size well, and Fractal has a manual as a pdf. I have the impression that it might be tight for a Synology NAS plus a router, but I would be even more concerned that the NAS might be too poorly cooled with an additional case. If the router also does Wi-Fi, I definitely wouldn't recommend it, as the enclosure is metal.