2U Dual Mini ITX Chassis?
2/10/2026 Update:
TAWA has reached back to me regarding the availablility of the T2240 Chassis. This is huge news for me since this was the case I was most excited about - it looks incredibly great even though it was designed and manufactured 10+ years ago. And I did mention in my original post below that this is as close as it can get to my ideal endgame.
The price though is going to be a bit tough to swallow - the quoted price is $875 USD including 2x flex PSUs (which I most likely will not be using) and another 600 USD for international shipping. The AIC RMC-2E I'm using for my Ampere server costed me a little under $800 USD including shipping and tax, and this cost is another level.. I've never spent a over 1K on a chassis before.
I'm definitely excited for this build, even though my wallet is crying a bit. I haven't even ordered the Strix Halo boards from Framework yet, and I'm already seeing the budget explode!
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
| Chassis | Est $1400 |
| Framework Desktop Motherboard AI 395 128GB x 2 | $4318 |
| Enhance Flex PSU x2 | $320 |
| 1TB NVMe x2 | $320 |
My dreams of upgrading my current server to an Blackwell RTX 6000 Pro is slipping 🥲 Hopefully the Strix Halos can fill the AI needs that I currently lack today in my homelab!
Original:
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.
Dual itx case
by u/ltloopy in sliger
Jacob ColvinThe only one that seems to be readily available seems to be this one or some alternate version of it:
From the Author
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.
Travla T2241 2U Dual Mini-ITX Case (19L) with 2x: Ryzen 3950X, 32GB 3600Mhz, Asrock X570 mITX, Dynatron K666 CPU cooler w/ 11k RPM fan
by u/Scooby1222 in sffpc
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...