HellDiverUK

Well, my PC-Q25B is old. The connectors on the backplane are all breaking up. Would I buy another? Probably. I've had 3 years of good service from the case, but with the breaking up backplane, it's time it went out to pasture. My new unRAID box is in a cheap Coolermaster uATX case, with a few bits and bobs, and it's running very well.

Which step in preclear are you on? Pre-read? 36 hours would not be unusually long for all the steps to complete. Let us know how long yours was after it has completed all steps. Oh yeah, it's on Step 2. Must look more closely before posting.

Nice build, pretty much what I'm in the middle of building - I've had the 25B for years, and it's been a solid and reliable little case. I've run mine without the front filter since I got it. I'm now running a Noctu 140mm PWM fan in the front. I never ran a 120mm fan in the top, leaving it to exhaust air naturally. 36 hours seems unusually long for a clear - I'm doing my 3TB Red drives at the moment, the first one is at 78% with 5 hours 14 minutes elapsed (123MB/s). As for setup on the board, I just did a 'Optimized Defaults', turned off the sound and turned down the iGPU to 32MB. Only things I changed. I'm booting off an old Sony Microvault Tiny 4GB that I've had for years, plugged in to a StarTech adapter inside the case. PSU is a cheap AC-Bel 350W that came out of an Asus PC. Citation needed. Lots of OEMs bundle their SATA cables together. SATA cables are also screened, so unless you're running HVD I really doubt you're going to get crosstalk. CRC error checking on the SATA interface is going to sort out any issues if there did happen to be a bit of crosstalk.