Fractal Design Node 804 No Power Supply MicroATX Cube Case FD-CA-NODE-804-BL, Black

Moving an old ~2014 Mini ITX computer into this case to build an unRAID NAS. Did most of the installation in about an hour. Plenty of room to work in, easy to get into, no sharp edges, comes with quality mounting hardware. There are tons of options for mounting and the instructions mostly cover what is needed with detailed line art images. Inside the case are mount points for up to 8 3.5" drives, 2 of which can support 2.5" drives directly, with an additional 2 mounts for 2.5" drives hidden in the front bezel. Also in the front is a mount for a slim-line slot loading optical drive, which totally surprised me. There are many options for mounting fans and radiators as well. My complaints: at this price point, the fans that come with it are not PWM. They all hook up to a little fan controller board with a physical switch for high/medium/low speeds. I'd rather it be automatic so the computer itself could ramp up cooling under heavy loads, and ramp back down to reduce noise at idle. Still, the fact that it comes with 3 case fans at all is a plus. I also would like to have seen more open ventilation on the front bezel near the top. Overall, excellent cube case. Great NAS option.

This is an awesome case. I have a plex media server which has 8 HDDs in it so I have had a difficult time finding a nice case to put it in. Recently upgraded some of the components and ended up with an MATX board. I was going to get a new case to go with it and had resigned myself to getting some tall monstrosity to hold it all it. Then I ran across this case. Awesome! It fits perfectly on my shelf in my media room and holds way more then it looks like it should be able to. Fits an oversize PSU (which I need for my build) and everything else I needed it to. My one and only gripe... I could not find a way to mount my 140mm AIO in it. Either the screw holes are not there or any place I put it would require moving something else... Like the motherboard... which cannot move. Technically if I had been willing to drill holes in my brand new case I could have mounted it on the back side. But then I would have had to remove 4 HDD's. Not cool. Aside from that I am very pleased. No other case quite like it on the market and even recommended it to a business I used to work for who builds custom NVR's that frequently need 60+ TB of storage and a lot of cooling to fit on a rack in a small space. It is just well designed and unique for what it does. Good buy. P.S. not sure why there is a review metric for tech support (I left it blank). If you need tech support to help you with an empty computer case then you probably shouldn't be buying an empty computer case...

This is the perfect case if you plan on building a NAS Server. It is easy to fit several HDs as well as SSDs. No problems fitting in a normal graphics card as well. Some reviews mentioned that it didn’t come with the hard drive brackets so I 3D printed them in advance. With that said, upon receiving the case, mine came with metal ones so it was not needed.

As advertised

I used this to build a high end media pc for 4k video and dolby atmos. I'm extremely happy with it, and it looks great as part of the entertainment unit under the tv. Lots of room for hard drives, lots of fans, and lots of options for a liquid cooled cpu radiator. The cube format was perfect for my application.