2U Dual Mini ITX Chassis?

I'm currently in the market for a 2U dual mini-itx chassis to replace my Raspberry Pi cluster. I want my setup to be higher performance and more readily available. As noted in my previous post, the Raspberry Pi fleet has had multiple nodes going down due to general instability (micro SD card instability, PoE HAT instability, etc). I've decided that I needed a strong balance of stability, idle power, and performance, and have started to look into the Framework Desktop mini-ITX motherboard, which runs the very powerful and power-efficient Strix Halo APU. I could also cluster them up in a single 2U of space through a dual mini-itx chassis, assuming I could find one.

A little bit of a rant - there just doesn't seem to be any good dual mini-itx rack mount cases available in the market right now. Seems like there are quite some people who share the same sentiment.

Looking for recommendations on Dual mini-ITX cases

Hello, I’m new to this, so I’ll be learning along the way. I have the following devices, which I’m looking to house: 1x TuringPi 2 - with 3x Raspberry Pi CM4s + 1x Turing RK1 1x CWWK N305 - Purple Board - mini-ITX - with Jonsbo Radiator 4x MG09 SATA HDDs I have a few questions: With my…

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Doesn’t it seem like a waste of space to have only a single mini-itx system in 1.5U-2U of rack space?

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The only one that seems to be readily available seems to be this one or some alternate version of it:

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It's technically not that bad, but lack of hotswap bays just screams to me that this is not the endgame that I am looking for.

If we travel back in time, there seems to have been cases from TAWA, specifically the TAWA-T2240 and the TAWA-T2241 which were purchasable several years ago.

Not only do these look good, but seems incredibly functional. I saw from Reddit that there's actually someone who has one of these and I'm incredibly jealous.

Maybe this is a blessing in disguise tho - I still have a huge interest in the Nvidia GB300 DGX Station, which might be what I end up getting instead of any other compute options. Although I'm not quite sure if the DGX Station's idle is low enough to permanently be in my rack, considering the DGX Spark's notorious idle power draw...