Hi Guys,

Anyone have any experience with Antec 1200 and Norco 4220? I want to build a 20-drive system but since I am going to keep the unRAID server in my office, I would like to make it as silent as possible. If going with Norco, I would be replacing the stock fans with 120mm x 3 and fanplate. I would also replace the rear fans with some silent ones (I am assuming 120mm will not fit back there).

 

I understand that Norco is loud even with 120mm fans but how loud compared to "normal PC"?

 

Any opinions either way?

 

Cheers

the norco with fans replace will be more silent then the antec and drive cages.

I've got the Norco 4224 and I replaced the fanwall with Noctua 120mm fans and its very quiet. The CPU heatsink fan is causing more noise than the case fans.

 

Thanks for a quick response.

 

Can you recommend a good silent 120mm and 80mm fans that will work with Norco 4220? I saw one of the post where some of the fan's casing was too thick to fit properly. Would definitely like to avoid that

Yo,

 

If they are too thick you just mount them on the other side of the fanwall like I did,same result!

I'd go for Noctuas PWM or Coolink PWM fans.

I have:

Fans: 3x Coolink Swif2-120P PWM and 2x Coolink Swif2-80P PWM 'Silent whisper fans'

as these were in stock where I bought my Norco! Very happy with them

 

As they mostly run @ 50% the only fan you hear is the intel stock fan, they keep my case cool between 28-38°C

 

gr33tz

See my prototypes thread (link in my sig) for my fan recommendations.