is someone of you using a Inter-Tech NAS-8 chassis and could provide some pictures about the inside with an installed motherboard, especially about the wiring of the power cable from the power supply to the motherboard as it seems that the cable goes through the rectangular opening directly under the motherboard PCB?
I am also interested in any experiences about the cooling of the harddrives via the two 120mm fans. On the picture https://www.inter-tech.de/files/images/ipc/88887392/NAS-8_schr%C3%A4g_hinten1.jpg I can see the mesh at the front of the chassis below the drive bays. How is it ensured that the 120mm fans pull the air through the drive bays and not simply through the mesh which may provide less resistance?
Does anyone know if the drives stay below 40°C in this chassis?
Does anyone know about a website with a test of the chassis and some more details? On the Inter-Tech website there is not much information and the Inter-Tech support answers really fast, but only the colleague from sales and not the technical experts.
Does someone know if additional drive bay trays could be purchased?
The motherboard is upside down, slots up. Cables from the PSU come through the large square hole, close to where a typical ATX motherboard would have its 24-pin connector. The ATX standoffs show that the lower part of this hole extends beyond an ATX motherboard.
My guess: Not at all. One may want to tape a piece of cardboard between the lower fan and the bottom of the drive cage to force air through the cage.
Isn’t that a typical question for the sales team?
I don’t know anything about the enclosure you refer to but FWIW, i do have an Inter-Tech 2404S chassis which houses my TrueNAS Core server and i am very happy with it. Good build quality for a good price. Pretty sure you can buy the trays seperately but as already mentioned, better to ask their sales contact.
Now I took the picture of the chassis and added a motherboard image, aligned by the four screw holes. You are right that the hole is exactly at the ATX connector of the motherboard, however, the space for the cable seems a bit “tight” to me.
