This is the Fractal Design bitumen layer, right?

I have used a hard (and dry?) bitumen paper
http://img179.imageshack.us/i/p1000216e.jpg/

This one does not smell at all! no odour whatsoever...
It can be found at stores selling insulation material...

Well the Lian Li PC-V2010B was nowhere near the Chieftec BA-01 with regard to noise, even though the latter features grills on the left panel - and most importantly right in front of the hdds - it lacks rubber/soft mounting for the hdds, and does not keep the hdds in a different compartment, which p...

It does really look promising...really like the rear air duct to reduce noise... Do the vents really help with noise? At some greek forum, a member had had a similar idea just a while ago... ...the outcome is not as classy, but you can take a look http://www.thelab.gr/showthread.php?t=78196 (the air...

The "trouble" with bequiet maybe less its width and more its flat surface with decreased sound absorbing efficiency... The bitumen-paper layer is indeed very effective... I have gone more with the Cooltek kit, but I've also used "industrial" bitumen paper with Spire soundpad where width needs to be ...

In what kind of shop can one find this rubber-made thin tape? How to ask for it or what are its usual applications, so that the other person understands?

It seems the space between the left panel and the hdd box is only 1.7cm (from the hdd box to the right side its 5.1 cm)... ...this immediately rules out fractal design's kit (at 16mm), so I guess the choice will be among be quiet (10mm) and cooltek (12mm) ...but it also makes me wonder whether I sho...

And what an expensive call that will be over the Atlantic...although I do enjoy speaking to crazy and polite people (they're abundant in the area) It has actually occurred to me to see what more "industrial "grade components have to offer...besides unbeatable price... A greek shop that seems to have...

Cooltek was the prior name of Fractal Design so that kit is old. I have the Be Quiet kit and I'm not all satisfied, it does stay on real nicely but it's too thick for behind motherboard tray and it's shape isn't the best for breaking waves of high-pitched noise, speaker foam is better in my opinion...

Ok, I got I a great deal on a Lian Li PC-V2010B (just 99€) so I went for it...I am expecting it to be delivered some time in the day (edit: just in), and I'm wondering whether I should dampen it before setting up the system... In Greece the following Sound Dampening materials are available: - Akas...

Nice to see some testing with more than one drive, certainly brings a different and enriched perspective to testing (and buying)....

Not a fan of small pcs but I like seeing tests on different kinds of cases...

I happen to own one such drive... ...I've indeed heard clicking noises coming from this drive, but they're not at all loud, nor are they prolonged for as long as 4 sec as you described in the other thread you linked at... In fact at the beginning I think I heard it more often, now it seems either th...

These really sound like serious issues... Have you contacted Seagate Support? Do we have any official input on the workings of the "clicking noise" (could it be something like wd head-park thing?) From my experience, their support is really quick to answer (at least if you chat or if you submit a ca...

I own one SΤ32000542AS drive, and from time to time I have also heard the clicking noise (although the frequency has certainly been reduced, yet I'm not absolutely certain it's coming from the particular drive), but I have never witnessed any performance drops, in fact I have copied from and to it ...

I would like to ask those who own the case and have worked with the case whether it is possible to connect two hdd installed in each of the the smaller hdd bays with a single sata power cable...that is whether the distance between the horizontal bays allows for a psu sata power cable to connect to t...

I've also tried the Cosmos 1000 for a while...it is quieter (small improvement over the Chieftec Bravo, yet noticeable) but there is less space in there both for hard drives and optical drives... It will also run hotter (the hdds mostly, even if you install the fan above them) and draw in dust easil...

Reviewing a case with more than one hdd installed does not only test the construction and acoustics of a case; for example, it can be used as a measure to test cable routing/hiding features of a case, since even a case which does not offer such option may look uncluttered with just one hdd...but wit...

We simply did not have have kinds of problems you experienced with yours... or did not consider specific issues as important as you do. We recommend it because it's better than most cases in its price, with more features for effective cooling/silence, and it's fairly well thought out. There are wea...

W/ regard to using it as a home server -- this and just about every full size case we've reviewed in the last couple years can hold a half dozen drives. We've never reviewed a case with more than one or 2 drives. It seems too obvious why: With more than a couple of drives, there's hardly any case w...

A surprisingly well thought out case. I'd normally say that the complaints from users in this thread are just nitpicking, but there's enough of them to show that there are some QC issues. I personally wouldn't have any problems with them though, especially considering the price. If it had proved to...

Nice review...one complaint I have is that it doesn't make much sense testing cases for silence with just one hdd...even cheap and weak cases will do pretty much fine with one hdd....add up half a dozen there, and then soft mounting and rigidity will have to prove themselves... I actually bought the...

that's a nice idea, the server rackmounts...I like the norco one best...

Drawback is the necessity for large available horizontal area to place it...no such available space in my room...

I have the Chieftec Bravo Full tower case (BA-01B) and I can tell you that the whole front is so full of holes, I don't think it will be better than the mesh...it's also not uniform so that you can effectively cover it and restrict noise... What strikes me strange with this case is that the lower fr...

Maybe something like fractal-design's "moduvent" would be the best solution... http://www.fractal-design.com/img_prod/inner_sidepanel.jpg However, I'm wondering whether simply covering the whole with some good dampening material bearing a hard bitumen sheet (like the Cooltec 395/universal kit) will ...

Something weird has happened... All of a sudden, within a week - after having moved my system on the new Fractal Design case and then back to Cheftiec Bravo (I must stress I am very-very careful with the handling of hdds), three of my four Seagate 1.5TB drives have come up with reallocated sectors ,...

I bought the Fractal Design Define R2 and I can say I was really not impressed ...that is considering noise-performance... Moving from my Chieftec Bravo BA-02B Full Tower to Fractal I noticed only a very small difference in noise volume, in favor of the latter...but the noise was more of disturbing ...

That's considerable when talking about quiet pc, but I guess the results posted refer to measurements taken with all vents open, right? I will be using both front/hdd air vents, the rear exhaust and probably one of the top ones, depending on the temperatures I am getting... Will be using Papst 4412 ...

What do you mean? It gets louder yes but the character of the sound doesn't necessarily change. Why do you need two exhaust fans, do you plan to overclock a lot? Well, I meant any change in volume, tone etc... So it does get louder, eh? Would it be better to keep it beneath the desk or put it on a ...

A question to those who own the case...

Does opening up the top vent(s) and, furthermore, installing (quiet) fan(s) there really alter the acoustic character of the case?

Thanks in advance...

Ok, I have got a little bit hooked on the Fractal Design R2 ...other cases with such hdd capacity are just too expensive (or make it somewhat impossible to mount and use all the provided hdd bays, e.g. NZXT Whisper - see my doubts above)... What worries me a little about this case is that with 8 hdd...

I've read again and again that WD Greens are more energy efficient, but that really depends on the model... Concerning the 2TB models, WD's Green model is actually more energy-consuming than other 2TB hdds...and I can't remember any comparison from those which I've read showing the WD20EADS more eff...