NeXus LAN

Any of you other nerds got any tips on where I can get some rackmount cases? Don't need anything special like hotswaps, can be used, and pretty much anything from 2u to 6u will work. I've gotten a few off newegg, but the shipping is like half the cost of the cases, and i know some one out there has to be recycling servers.

What specifically are you looking for? just the case or you want a complete box?

Well... i would be interested in complete boxes too depending on what is in them, but in this case, just the errr... case.

What's your project?

As someone who has evaluated and purchased chassis' for a business that sold 6,000+ servers / year I can tell you that the cheap rackmount cases are just that.

Supermicro is the best

IStarUSA, AIC are OK. Chenbro is expensive.

Some of the really cheap ones, I've evaluated a case from Athena Power for example, had PCI slot covers that were cut by a jigsaw.

Here's a $99 4U from iStarUSA
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7973657&CatId=3427 (http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7973657&CatId=3427)

All I am doing is moving all my old computers to a rack. Every time I build a new rig for some one they basically just tell me to keep the old parts and I turn it into a SQL server or linux sandbox or game server or whatever.  I've got a couple of supermicros and Norcos at work, and they are pretty solid. I have a 2U rosewill for my Windows Home Server rig, and that IS a piece of crap. I had to use a demel to get one of the hard drive cages that it came with to fit back in it with drives installed.