If you see my Gallery thread, you see my Solaris ZFS build. It include custom built Wood case with EMI shielding and modified powersupply, and custom HDD mouting. http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=61190 The Fan speed is controlled by Mother Board BIOS, and runs at very low sp...

Anyways, I got a chance to mount this Hitachi drive finally. It is infact as quiet as one of the best Best Samsung H204 2TB drive I have. No vibrations. But it seems little warmer than Samsung drives, almost by 3 degrees. Also seems power consumptions is little more than Samsung (Probably by 0.5 wat...

Thanks for very detailed analysis fumino! :) In addition to my current 5 x Samsung F4 2TB drives which are all over the map for vibrations, I bought Hitachi 5k3000 drive in NewEgg deal. I just got it yesterday, and I will hook it up and check to see how it sounds/vibrations. I will provide info abou...

Howdy all, I'd like to get your opinion on my planned NAS and what power options I have. Here's my planned system (with power requirements): Gigabyte GA-D525TUD with Intel Atom D252 (<45W) Vantec 6 port SATA PCI card (<5W) 8 x Western Digital 2TB hard drives (8 x <8W = <64W) So my estimated total p...

Thought of creating a 3D digram, but did not got chance to, but I have a cross section of case I created during design.

Hopefully, this will be useful for someone else.

WOW, that's a really nice case. Did you experiment with different suspension length? For me, some crazy long suspensions did the best for drive silencing I ever experienced. Like 4 pieces of 50 cm rubber on each side. Yes distance between anchor points, tension in the cable does matter. I took midd...

I am surprised that you people are complaining about vibrations. I think I read in this topic that it does not vibrate. So it seems that it depends what piece man gets but it should not be like that. If it is only 5400 rpm and three platters. It should not vibrate at all. When it vibrates I would s...

I was more than surprised how much mine vibrates, it's comparable to 7200 rpm drives. I was running out of time, so returning and asking for a refund was not an option, but I was seriously considering it. It is cooler, quicker, (i believe) more reliable, and has better RAID support than any WD Gree...

Very good find. Wish it was found before I soldered 30+ wires...

Oh well I saved $15 for 2 hours of my work...

Thanks for quick reply! Though off topic, I am looking for a heat sink like that with height less than 4" (ideal is 3"). I intended to use this with single case fan, so it needs to enough tall, but not obstruct my custom HDD cage. I am also looking at Alpine 11 Pro which seems little wider, but not ...

Great work. I have Antec Fusion case, and I used Mini-Ninja and it fits with out any mods. Just like you did I replaced Antec Tricool with Arctic Cooler PWM fans connected to CPU header. I am curious what is original CPU heat sink in your first post? I am interested that kind of CPU heatsink for a c...

Thanks for compliments. This is my first custom handmade case. I did minor customizations to commercial cases before, but never from ground up. There is just enough space to fit low-profile PCI/PCIe cards, but that will block the smooth airflow. As this is intended exclusively for NAS, it does not r...

Some more photos. Power button is photo shop . waiting for it be shipped..

Here are HDD mounted to left side door in the Cage.. on its side. When door is mounted, HDD stand up connectors facing bottom.
Casing is lined with Aluminum. In this picture side mesh is not installed yet.

Hi all, I am close to completion of my NAS case. The goal was to make it as power efficient as possible and as quite as possible with-in limited budget. I will add description as and when I get some time, but I want to start of with some pictures. I am still waiting some parts( illuminated power but...

Anyways finally got the build phase 1 done. With 6 drives (5 x 2TB drives and one 32GB flash boot drive), it is idling at 44 watts, and when data drives spin down, power drops to 28 watts ( still taking about close 1 watt when spin down). Overall this setup reached my original goals of system under ...

After several bios changes and Ubuntu configuration changes I am able to hit 24watts idle with USB flash based drive. Here is new configuration CPU: Celeron E3400 CPU voltage at 1.056v ( after 28 hours of Prime 95, 1.05 turned out be stable voltage and but want some buffer, so I set it at 1.056. Any...

If i where to use the SPST Reed Relay in my setup, how would i connect it? meaning to what wires go where? I understood the the reason you wanted me to use a DPDT momentary switch, But by doing that isn't it bad for the mother board? Reason I'm saying this is because when you hold down the DPDT mom...

This this method should work then, Right? press and hold the momentary push switch to turn on the DA-2, And while Holding the momentary push switch, Push the button to power on the computer. The idea of using DPDT(Double Pole Double terminal) momentary switch is, it has total 4 connection points an...

If you do not have DA-2 running, there would not be standby power to PICO PSU. WIthout Standby power, it woud not be able to send remote on-off signal. May be you can use a DPDT power button which will ground DA-2 power on PIN, and as usual button connection. Once power is on for a moment and PICO P...

For those on the fence interested in more information, I can also confirm that these PSUs follow conventional wiring colors so you can use standard atx pinouts (search google--I like the ones at pinouts DOT ru & helpwithpcs DOT com & wikipedia; I'm not allowed to post url's yet, sorry)--with a coup...

Few days ago I bought this power supply and It seems Dell changed the certification for this Power supply. Now it's label says silver, otherwise it is exactly same as what is shown in this thread. Though I do not see a date stamp anywhere, it looks like more recent model. Also, the fan inside is not...

Thanks for the reply. Man it was cold no one even threw any ideas. Pico PSU was to keep the enclosure size to minimum possible along with high-efficiency. But I already ordered Dell RM112 high-efficiency power supply, may be I will use that. Anyways, I finally got Asrock G43FullHD setup with Celeron...

Any ideas please!!

Hi folks, I am a long time lurker and occasional poster here, and I need some help from Low power wizards here. Trying to a build a Nexenta based NAS with ZFS RAID Z2. I need a decent low power CPU with Motherboard with 6 SATA II ports. As all of us here do, I am trying to keep idle power to minimum...

I am a long time SPCR reader, and occational poster. Recently I bought X4 620 along with ASUS M4A785-M Motherboard and installation process. I saw that you undervolted the X4 620 to 1.1625 and system used about 124 watts at full CPU load. Even for my CPU that is how far I can undervolt, but my syste...

good find....very interesting even if it is outdated chipset. There is an DVI version of this board with the better 7100 chipset: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813500012 Pair this one with E7200 and you will drop atleast another 15watts idle power. That makes it 30watts idle...

Buy an E7200 by all means, but dont touch Intel motherboards their support is total shit. By a motherboard from a company that gives a damn about its end users. http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=50270 Andy Haa... Though I like intel CPUs and Chipsets, I never bought a mother boar...

Just found this link which shows power consumption of various CPU, interestingly Q9300 only consume around 45watts. I am wondering what happens if we can undervolt it little bit, we should able to bring it around 35watts easily I think. Quadcore at 35Watts, wow my laptops Turion ML-40 uses same powe...

Looks like there is a date for nVidia 9300/9400 boards.. that is October 15th(instead of sep 23).. It seems it has everything working including the Hybrid SLI. But it has been criticized by inquirer. The listed prices are notably higher than the 780G line, something that won't help matters at all. T...