My Home 14+ TB File Server

[Cortexian]

The chassis is this:
http://www.norcotek.com/RPC-4224.php

You can pick them up for about $400 or so. Includes the back planes and hot swap caddies. The rails were like $40. All the other hardware should have prices readily available on newegg. I'd recommend getting the 9265-8i now that it's out though, faster and in the same price point.

The server rack itself runs for close to $1000, but I got it around $200 because work was getting rid of it haha.

[Zeph]

The server rack itself runs for close to $1000, but I got it around $200 because work was getting rid of it haha.

That's the bit I was having a hard time believing. Those things (even the cheaper ones) are stupidly expensive for what I imagine they are made of. We're talking trampoline levels of profit. You could buy the sheet metal, cut/press, assemble yourself for a considerable fraction of that. There's not any special shit you have to do when making them is there?

[Cortexian]

Not really, it's two metal sides, two doors (you can get any combination of vented or solid w/fan mounts), top and a bottom, 4 casters, and 4 of the corner parts that have the holes for mounting rack rails into them.

Materials-wise they're definitely not worth it. They're marked way up because they only make a limited number and sell them pretty exclusively to data centers and businesses large enough to need their own server racks as opposed to a few server machines here and there.