Fantec SRC-4240X07

[Kosta]

Hello,
Currently I have 10 drives in a PC-case and am planing an upgrade to a 4U chassis.
I'd like to keep the price around €500 if possible (just for the case). Rails, cables etc is separate.
Fantec SRC-4240X07 fits in that category quite well.

However, beside the Info on the homepage, I can't really find much about it. Here and there a comment, but that's it.
So I am wondering about couple of things.

1) Is this a known case? Any experience with it?
2) The backplane is "only" 6G, there is a version with 12G, however costs €120 more. Question is, would it make sense to get that one rather?
3) Are backplanes generally a standard (like a motherboard for instance), like can I replace the backplane later with something else, or would I have to replace the complete case?

From what I've seen:
I should be able to fit all my current hardware into it, Intel Silver 4110 with X11 motherboard, a 9211-8i HBA, i350 4-port NIC, 10 WD Reds and BeQuiet ATX PSU.

The goal is in the end to upgrade up to 22 disks (total of 2 ZFS pools), with two as spares in the end.

 

[Samuel Tai]

If you're only running spinners and no SSDs, you won't see any benefit to a 12G backplane, as 6G will be the fastest the drive interfaces can go.

Although most backplane designs are pretty standard, the specific form factors tend to be chassis-specific.

Don't skimp on the power supply. With that many disks, your power supply should be sized for peak current draw, so make sure the 12V rails can supply enough amps + a safety margin at startup.

 

[Kosta]

Yes, the chances are I'll be running disks only. Only been discovering things like ARC and L2ARC in past two days, but I was told running caching in my scenario is useless. Front 24 hot swaps are all 3,5 and will most likely be used for disks. That most likely the next 10 years at least.
I'm having 450W right now, and will transfer it to the new case. Should be enough until I start expanding. Right now with 10 disks everything's stable. It will however remain single-PSU, I have no need for dual-PSU.