I have a NZXT Phantom white tower, lots of drive bays including 5.25. Cooling is via a 129mm fan in rear and a huge slow one in the top, mine has a second huge fan in the top. Run out of 3.5 bays? Unlikely but put a 4X2.5" or 2X3.5" bay converter into one of the 5.25 ones.
No lights on mine. The one issue is if you don't like Star Wars Storm trooper style.
Usually there are at least some of NZXT's cases on ebay so have a look at least.
I am after as less old school case and more one with the modern concepts of air flow etc, something like this:
https://www.mwave.com.au/product/nzxt-h510-tempered-glass-midtower-atx-case-matte-white-ac24911?gclid=Cj0KCQjwncT1BRDhARIsAOQF9LkAtHPCxsahIg1SBkIRUYZkrefMuUvMdi0aRPISm1Wu4c7iXHpVREAaAqhMEALw_wcBThis is along the lines.. I just do not know which are the good and bad on modern standards.
But to note modern cases...
- No horizontal drive bays at front
- PSU at bottom or in its own compartment, sometimes behind the motherboard in thicker case designs
- Fans 3-2 at front and 1-2 at the back
- Little to no interference from front to back
- cable management
- drive bays for various drive sizes on floors, beside motherboard as well as behind
- cable management features where 90+% of cables are behind