It’s too bad because I really like the idea, as there really are not much options here in Canada for this sort of thing, but holy crap they charge way too much. If they could make the 45 drive case + sas expander setup about $1,000, and then you add your own components, I think that would be a decent deal. When I built my 24 bay supermicro server about 10 years ago it ran me around 3k. Case was around $1,500 and then components around there too. Now that we lost NCIX and Tigerdirect there is nowhere to buy Supermicro stuff though.

I’d consider insulating the ductwork and doing air sealing if it gets that hot, as it means lot of your heat is not making it where it should so your hvac is probably running more than it needs to.

Do those have VT-D and can they accept a decent amount of ram like 16GB or so? Very tempting to build a Proxmox cluster if I can find some here in Canada.