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Most ATX cases support M-ATX mobo's too! So if you don't care about it being a midi tower thats your cheapest option. Just pick one that has enough drive bays, I always go with Fractal Design. If you want to go smaller you'll have to start looking for more niche cases/manufacturers. I suggest planning your other hardware first, then finding a case that fits it. Btw, I'm also interested in low power consumption. If you haven't seen this yet, it's great. It's essentially a TLDR from a german/dutch forum dedicated to low power machines. I'm going with the Fujitsu 3643-B, as that has 6 sata, 2 x16 PCIE 3.0 slots, and supports ECC memory. If you don't care about ECC and only need 4 sata ports, the Fujitsu D3643-H is the way to go. Both these boards can run full systems at 5W idle, which is insane. Good luck!
No, it's written by the developer of Sanoid and Syncoid. The foremost open source ZFS snapshotting tool. He contributes on this sub all the time.