Advice Needed On Large 12-16 Drive Media Server - 30+ TB

The more issues I see with trying to use a regular PC as an OMV server, the more I realize I should maybe go about this a different way. I'm up to 32 TB of media from years of TV recordings and storage and I am a stickler for local HD video and not the cloud/netflix/etc. I like having my own files!

I would like to have a server running OpenMediaVault and that's it, with a TON of hard drives in there. Are there cheap/used servers with 12-16 bays on eBay that I can just install the drives in, boot them from an OMV drive, and go?

This would be a new world for me but I've outgrown the world of a PC case with 6 drive bays. External USB enclosures are not doing it for me and expensive. There has to be a better way. I have plenty of space to put it, I don't care how big or loud it is, just so long as it can handle large drives as they get bigger 8TB+ and that I can put 12 or 16 drives in there.

I would love some advice. I just think it's time to put the PC as an OMV box out to pasture.

That's awesome, thanks. So I just set that box to boot from my OMV drive and I'm good to go, no extra hardware needed? That's perfect.

Dumb question #2, I can just buy that and slide my SATA drives right in there? No extra cabling/adapter cards needed, assuming the backplane itself supports the drive size?

What do you think of this one?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2U-Sup…e88bc3:g:dvUAAOSwyLlXoniE

Glad you said that, I was wondering why it was cheaper and did SAS2. Crud. Thanks again for the help. I'm debating giving the models you found a try though am worried they will only go up to 4TB with the SAS backplane which I am reading. If I have to drop a lot of coin on a new backplane board, I may just want to look for one that's compatible with the larger drives. Guess I am still a little ahead of the curve there on that. I really appreciate the advice!

Oh you bet it is! Just not sure what to do with the 3 5TB drives I have now -- Had I known I was buying this a year ago I'd have capped out at 4TB drives and never went higher. My bad. This server thing is a new world but very cool. Makes me wonder why I ever bothered trying to build this OMV box with a dinky little PC!