Thanks, I read the review of the backplane, but seem to get a bit hot when the fan is disabled. Maybe it's fine to have the disks suspended inside the cage. There shouldn't be more than one failing disk per year, then it's nevertheless time for cleaning inside the case :) How would you recommend to ...

Using the hot-swappable 4x2.5" drives would give me a total of 16 TB, using 1 TB drives and 4 backplanes. But it would be very costly... What I plan with my setup is to use a mirror (2x1TB) for my important stuff, which is scheduled for daily backup on a third external sata disk which is switched on...

Do you know if the 3TB hitachi drives are silent? Yep, I have to think some more on the setup, have to figure out which redundancy I can afford as well. Is there any place which lists the failure rates on different disks?

Ok, sounds good. I'll have to think some more about my storage needs, would be great if 2.5" disks could handle 2 TB

Hello, thanks for the feedback. My idea with the drive cages is to be able to replace the drives easily but I don't want to sacrifice in noise... I have 6 3.5" drives which are mounted with elastic bands in the antec solo, using the holes on the case for the upper 5.25" "slots". The thing is I need ...

Some little updates, I modified the configuration on the first post :-) 4-in-1 2.5" SAS backplane, of course fans removed and trays soundproofed :wink: Nice setup! Have you checked the temperature of the drives in the 2.5" bay? I'm also thinking of a 4x2.5" hot swappable drive cage, but I'm not sur...

Hi, I have an idea of moving to 2.5" disks on my antec solo, less power, less heat etc. I found this drive cage which takes 2x2.5" disks in a 5.25" slot, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816215223 I suppose the fans can be disabled by modding the cage, but the drives themselves ...

Thank you for the feedback, I will post here when I've tried. Found some rubber grommets today that I can mount the PSU fan with, I think a lot of the noise is vibration related. Did it work? Hello, I managed to test it this weekend, and I must say it works really good. The PSU fan is mounted in re...

Thank you for the feedback, I will post here when I've tried. Found some rubber grommets today that I can mount the PSU fan with, I think a lot of the noise is vibration related.

Hello, I'm using the thermaltake element q case (there was a review here on silentpcreview on a similar case but another brand but I can't find it now) with an i3 540 cpu, and I have problems both with heat and noise. I did some tests with undervolting the PSU fan and it got about as silent as I wan...

What about mac os x? It would really be great with individual spindown settings on each disk. I've searched a bit and this is what I've found so far (applescript): on run {input, parameters} set vol to "example" tell application "Finder" if (exists disk vol) then do shell script "diskutil unmount /V...

Now I have measured the system. Using a x1550 graphic card and two 3.5" disks: ~100W idle @ 2.4GHz, 1.25V ~158W full load @ 2.4GHz, 1.25V ~145W full load @ 2.4GHz, 1.162V (lowest voltage the cpu allowed to set :( ) ~100W idle @ 1.6GHz, 1.162V (underclocking with multiplier) ~134W full load @ 1.6GHz,...

I tested some different settings in the bios today and i could not underclock a tiny MHz! However, it was no problem overclocking. I don't understand this at all, maybe it's something with my ram or bios version. If it behaves like this my only option is to software underclock by lowering the multip...

I undervolted my Q6600 and the saved watt was not so impressive IMHO. Think I was down to 84 watt iddle from 95-105. Hmm, ok, how much did you decrease the voltage? It seems that I cannot decrease the multiplier in the bios of the bad axe2, so I'll have to do decrease the FSB instead. The minimum i...

Nice tool, seems it will drop quite a lot if I run it at the lowest multiplier and the lowest voltage. From 95 W (2.4GHz 1.25V) to 29 W (1.6GHz 0.85V). I will use a bad axe 2 motherboard so I think the voltage should be stable.

I'm thinking of using a Q6600 in a server, but would like to know if there is much energy/heat to save if I do underclocking and undervolting. The TDP should be proportional to the voltage, right? How about the clock frequency? Maybe the easiest way is to measure the system before and after underclo...

I found a 92 mm duct that allows for mounting a fan and hopefully a somewhat better airflow out from the case. http://kunstlab.info/boris/img_0532_400.jpg In the photo the small outlet also is shown. What I really wonder is how much performance I need from the fan in terms of airflow to keep the cas...

Think I'll gonna try a 80 mm Nexus and see how it works. I'm not sure how it will affect the airflow if the fan is somewhat larger than the pipe, some mm maybe is ok? What is the recommended ambient temperature for hard drives? As I'm using usb disks now I can't access the SMART features and measure...

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Hi, I want to mount a fan in a wooden case that was built to silence a P2 some years ago. The size of the outlet is 73 mm in outer diameter, so my question is if you have any recommendations regarding fans and mounting options. I found a fan that maybe will fit: Adda 60mm, 16dBa, 22,4 m³/t. I'm pla...