My suggestion would be to go with Fractal Design.
Their "Define" series are visually gorgeous and extremely well laid out inside, plus they have an advantage of mostly favoring thumbscrew-type fasteners internally.
The Define R6 standard model is what I've currently got, it has 1 dedicated external 5.25" slot and bracket, includes 6 universal 3.5"/2.5" brackets with mounting points for up to 5 more, and includes 2 dedicated 2.5" brackets with mounting points for up to 2 more.
The most recent model, the Define 7, has an "XL" model which has two external 5.25" mounts, and can house up to 18 universal 3.5"/2.5" brackets, and 5 dedicated 2.5" brackets.
Combine a Define-series case with a good modular PSU from "be quiet!", a beefy Noctua CPU cooler so you can keep the fan RPMs down, and a high-diameter case fan or two, and you'll end up with a machine that's clean inside, and dead silent outside.
I first went with Fractal Design when I built a machine back in 2015, and have stuck with them ever since because of just how trouble-free they've been.
Edit: For reference, my current machine has an AMD Ryzen 9 3950X (16 cores, 32 threads, Zen 2) and a Zotac RTX 3080 GPU. Even running full tilt on benchmarks, I can't even hear the machine running when combined with all the above bits.
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