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

This case is amazing. It’s compact that has a good amount of space when putting together a NAS. The quality of design is great, and the build materials are as well.

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.

I like this case but it was a bit of a pain to route the power supply cabling, and there's very little space for SATA cables between the backplane and the rear fan. I had to remove the inner fan screen to make things fit. This part is only really an issue if you use a fanless motherboard, but you also absolutely must put a fan in the upper motherboard chamber, otherwise the CPU will have no airflow.

Perfect for the job. Holds plenty of drives and it’s itx! Built a truenas server with this case and it was so easy. It’s well thought out and the airflow is pretty decent all things considered. Replacing the drive fan with a 25mm was the only thing I felt like needed to happen. The noctua g2 is a silent option and mounts just fine on the outside of the case. 54TB later, this thing is officially the data tank! Best value in the server chassis game!

Great little NAS case that I found easy to work in and it is able to keep a full rack of drives cool without too much noise. I misplaced some of my hardware for attaching the hard drives to the case and found using there email support easy and reasonably priced for replacement hardware. Very happy with my purchase.

These are great cases. I’ve been building a few of these now for friends to run Plex server off of. Easy access to motherboard and processor. Only issue is making sure the cable management allows for good airflow. Some say the fan comes with it isn’t enough. I disagree. The fan has maintained all my builds at approximately 46°C when I move the connector straight to the mobo. If you’re gonna work at hard harder than just a NAS. Then you might need to look at better airflow.

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 route cables in best positions. - The power supply can be mounted with the fan facing either the louvers on the case side or inward toward the case interior. This is handy at least in my case where the power supply fan was the noisiest fan (after replacing the case fan) and orienting so it faced the interior of the case made it much quieter. Cons: - The case fan is very noisy for a case that is obviously designed to be attractive and used in an occupied room or office. And while it is a 120mm fan, it is only 15mm thick instead of the normal 25mm of standard PC case fans. This limits the options for quieter replacements. I did replace it with a Noctua fan the same size but it runs at a higher speed than their really quiet case fans and is therefor somewhat noisier. It would have been nice if they had made the case a minor 10mm deeper so it fit a standard fan. As it is, there is not enough clearance with the cables to allow a 25mm fan to fit. - A minor annoyance is that the front panel board has both USB-A and USB-C 3.0 connectors, but it seems that most low power motherboards that would likely be used in a NAS system do not have a compatible USB-C motherboard connector (some don't even have a USB-A 3.0 connector) and the 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 screws each if they are not needed. As I said, a pretty nice case overall. The hot plug drives seem to fit and seat quite nicely.

Compact, space-efficient design Easy assembly and drive installation Durable and well-built chassis I have been using as my NAS for more then 6 months for my Jellyfin and bulk storage no issues i like how nice it looks Cons: Tight internal space for cable management Specs Truenas Scale i5 12500 with stock cooler 32gb ram 250gb boot vnme 4 x 16tb hdd RAIDZ2

A**

I use it for TrueNAS with 4x 3.5 inch drives, 1x 2.5 inch SSD boot drive and an M.2 NVMe cache drive on the motherboard. You would think the build process and cable management would be a challenge in this form factor but it was very easy to build in with well designed spaces for cables to be tucked away without hassle. Great design and highly recommended for a DIY NAS solution. Fits nicely behind my TV.

I purchased this PC case for a NAS build with the hopes that I could replace an aging "server" I cobbled together years ago. Reality far surpassed my hopes because to my surprise, this PC case is probably the highest quality case I've ever built with. From the design decisions to the ease-of-installation of components, it was a joy to with within the constraints that this case imposed. I was easily able to install 4x IronWolf Pro HDDs in the bays (it supports a 5th drive but my motherboard does not), and the whole thing fits in the same footprint as my previous CM case and supports almost twice as many HDDs! If I had to fault one thing about it, it's the mesh grill on the exhaust fan; it makes the fan suuuuuper loud compared to other PCs I've built, and it's simply just due to a airflow restricting mesh grill. If you're purchasing this, upgrade the fan with a Noctua (almost a no-brainer) and get 2x non-mesh fan grills for both sides of the fan, or just go without the grills (your choice). Other than that, I would gladly purchase another one of these cases!

Probably not necessary to give this NAS box another 5 star review, but I will. Great product. Good design. Good quality. I was migrating my NAS from a previous enclosure that kept overheating my drives with 3 fans. With the open top design, its nice to mount your ITX board, and route your cables however you like. Routing 5 SATA cables may require some thinking. Especially because most ITX motherboards don’t have 5 SATA ports. As luck would have it, I was already using a PCI-SATA card, and all my previous 90deg SATA cables worked perfectly for minimizing cable traffic, but more importantly avoiding interference zones with the rear fan and restricting airflow. All went together nicely. Couple lessons learned. Immediately replace the mesh intake and exhaust mesh plates with 120mm grills. That will increase airflow and reduce noise considerably. And, connect your fan to your motherboard so you can control it, and not have to run it at full speed. The fan cable is plenty long enough to reach your motherboard. There are several posts on replacing the fan with an exterior Noctua, even a 3D printed mod to minimize how far it sticks out. These are all good posts, but I thought I would first try the stock fan. As it turns out, running the fan at about 30% rpm yields ample cooling and is quieter than my CPU fan. No need to be quieter than your CPU fan. All-in-all. A Great Product!

Tight squeeze but great size. Quiet