nobladeofgrass

Thought it was about time I got in on the Quick Sync thing so made a new server to replace my trusty old Ryzen 5 2600 set up (in a Be Quiet Silent Base 800 case). Went with the following (purely used for Plex and Roonserver).... Antec P101 Silent case Gigabyte Z590 D motherboard Intel Core i5-11500 CPU Be Quiet Shadow Rock 3 CPU cooler Corsair Vengeance LPX 3200Mhz 4x 8GB Corsair P3 m.2 PCIE Gen. 4 NVME 1TBx1 Be Quiet System Power 9 600w semi-modular PSU Seagate Exos 16TB x5 WD 14TB shucker x1 unRAID OS Plus Managed to follow the guides for setting up the iGPU to hardware transcode. It seemed daunting but really was a breeze. Thanks to the people who shared the knowledge. I'll harvest the hard drives from the old server and hopefully sell it on locally as a "just add storage and OS USB". Not sure what interest there will be in deepest Devon but we'll see. I already have a 15 bay front loader for back ups so can't justify keeping it.

Icy Dock ToughArmor MB994SP-4SB still available ?.

Sharkoon T9 case picked up on ebay for less than £30 a couple of years ago. Only recently got around to finishing it off with the Icydock 5in3. In hindsight I wish I'd used these in the first place as they don't stick out anywhere near as far as the Supermicros. Looks a bit of a mutt but with bigger hard drives it has currently replaced 3 smaller builds (Fractal Design Array R2 mini, Node 304 and Arc Mini R2) and will also replace a Fractal Designs R3 backups build soon. After years of fiddly drive swaps in cramped cases I'm in front loading heaven.

I made the mistake of getting a standard ATX board to use a couple of these cages in a Sharkoon T9 case. As you say, there is an overlap of the cage fans over the end of the motherboard. Made sure I got a much narrower one but it had to be mATX which is no problem (MSI A32M-A PRO Max). It fits and that was all that I was concerned about. Looking for a third one now. They work great and are super quiet with replacement Nanoxia fans. Never tried them with the original ones.