• A superior quality 14-inch mini 1U rack-mountable chassis supporting a maximum ATX motherboard size of 12 x 9.7 inches
• Features a 260W power supply, 2 3.5-inch internal drive bays, a 1000mm 5,000 RPM fan, 2 rear USB 2.0 ports, and an I/O expansion slot
• LED indicators on front panel for power, hard drive activity, network activity, and system overheat
• Power and system reset button on front panel
• Device measures 16.8 x 1.7 x 14.0 inches (WxHxD)

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The Supermicro 512L-260 SuperChassis Rack-Mountable Chassis (Beige) offers a superior quality rack-mountable 14-inch mini 1U chassis that supports a maximum ATX motherboard size of 12 x 9.7 inches. The 512L-260 features a 260W power supply, two 3.5-inch internal drive bays, one 100mm 5,000 RPM fan, one I/O expansion slot (Riser Card required), and two rear USB 2.0 ports. There are LED indicators on the front panel for power, hard drive activity, network activity, and system overheat. A power and system reset button reside on the front panel as well.

What's in the Box
SC512L-260 chassis, power supply, fan, LED ribbon cable.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Solid 1U RackMount Case - Earplugs not included
Comment: Solid, well finished Supermicro product. This of course is an industrial grade 1U Rackmount Case meant to be placed by the hundreds maybe thousands in a server room. Saving space is what this baby is all about but in exchange the main case blower and the tiny power supply fan are very loud. You do not want to have this next to you at your desk. Plan to stuff this in a spare room, close the door and forget about it.

First of all the front pannel, HD, power light, Reset and power switch use a proprietary ribbon meant to connect to a supermicro mainboard but will not plug into standard ATX main board headers. You need to order Supermicro part CBL-0068L or make your own. There will be extra header conections for the front panel like 2 for ethernet connection activity and one for overheated case environment that will not be used for standard mainboards.

make sure your ATX or Micro-Atx mainboard has the 24 pin power connection header at the front of the mainboard in front of the CPU. Meaning not close to the back panel where the Mouse/keyboard PS/2 connections are. Why? because the power supply cable is Extremely short and will only reach where I previously specified. Or you could get an power cable extender but it would be less expensive to know this ahead of time if you are planning on purchasing a new mainboard for this case. The 4 pin power cable is also not very long and that connector header on your mainboard should be as close to the vicinity of your CPU as possible for the cable to reach.

The power supply also has two standard 4 pin power leads. I used one for the hard drive and the other I used a convertor plug to fan power header to power the case blower fan. This is not included with the case and I used my own. I would not recommend you use your mainboard fan header that Supermicro expects you to use to power this blower because blower fan motor is rated at 2.7 amps which is alot of power compared to lets say an OEM Intel Heatsink fan that pulls 0.2 amps. Better be safe than sorry. maybe the Supermicro mainboards that this case is meant for has heavy duty fan power headers but I would prefer not to burn out the ones on my off the shelf consumer Micro-ATX mainboard. Also your back panel tin cutout for your USB/PS2/VGA connections will not fit the back of this case and the one supplied will more than likely not be in the arrangement required to fit your mainboard. I just removed the one supplied and left it open. The blower will push enough dust through the case so having a little more openings in the back won't make much of a difference.

Pros - Well built, Power supply is a quality 1U unit, SuperMicro reliability.
Cons - Non-Standard Front panel connection and back panel cut outs. Power supply 24 pin cable is extremely short and the 4 pin power cable is not much longer, Fans loud as hell and no ear plugs where included.

For the money and what it was intended for I would recommend this.

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