Recently upgraded and have similar space constraints; I've shoved an i5-13500, 1xM2 NVME SSD, 2x2.5" SSDs, 6x3.5" HDDs into a Fractal Design Node 304, with a Si

Recently upgraded and have similar space constraints; I've shoved an i5-13500, 1xM2 NVME SSD, 2x2.5" SSDs, 6x3.5" HDDs into a Fractal Design Node 304, with a Silverstone ECS-07 replacing my old LSI HBA. ~700GB of cache/ container volumes on the 2.5"s as a mergerfs pool, ~38T across the HDDs in mergerfs+snapraid. Noise and heat are kept at a meaningfully low level, and the case blends in appropriately with the living room. All the normal home-cloud workloads, along with k8s homelab stuff (so I can computer janitor in my free time).