THE XCUBENAS XN7008RE INTERIOR

Aside the two 250W power supply units and the mainboard the interior has also extra room for up to 6 SATA and NVMe SSD slots (models that end with RE lack those however).

At the front of the chassis and after the drive trays we find three replaceable 60mm intake/exhaust fans.

A large black aluminum heatsink is placed just over the 7th generation Intel Core i3-7100 CPU.

There's also an 8GB USB EDC (Embedded Disk Card) by Innodisk right next to the bios battery.

TLA is once again the manufacturer of the two pre-installed DDR4-2133 RAM modules.

A smaller black heatsink is located right next to the two 12Gb/s SAS wide ports.

Aside the 10GbE SFP card we received with the XN7008RE we also used a TB3 (Thunderbolt 3) card for our tests.

For these tests we were planning on using 8 Seagate IronWolf 12TB drives but at the last minute one of those drives failed so we had to use a 10TB IronWolf drive instead (bay 8).