Squid Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 Finally, someone who takes the possibility of crosstalk on cabling serious 1 1 Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 On 4/19/2018 at 6:59 PM, Squid said: Finally, someone who takes the possibility of crosstalk on cabling serious Perhaps even a bit of overkill in that regard ... I'd also do a bit of measuring and buy some shorter cables. Quote Link to comment
methanoid Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 On 12/13/2013 at 11:48 AM, Ulvan said: All the pics are gone.. Any chance of a re-upload.. I have same case and am interested to see possibilities for getting more into it... Quote Link to comment
Ulvan Posted June 7, 2018 Author Share Posted June 7, 2018 (edited) Yes, I didn't do any measuring of the cables. They are arranged slightly more neatly when I finalized the build than in the pics. Slightly. Here you go with the pics! Some of them depict how I cut one of the PCI-E ports on the mobo to fit the SATA cards. Edited June 7, 2018 by Ulvan Quote Link to comment
methanoid Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 Thanks @Ulvan the additional 4 drive cage is from the Define R4? I have my 8 bays full and a 5 in 3 for the 5.25s so that would be next for me to add. Do you notice higher drive temps for those drives? Quote Link to comment
Ulvan Posted June 7, 2018 Author Share Posted June 7, 2018 3 minutes ago, methanoid said: Thanks @Ulvan the additional 4 drive cage is from the Define R4? I have my 8 bays full and a 5 in 3 for the 5.25s so that would be next for me to add. Do you notice higher drive temps for those drives? If I recall correctly, I got the extra 4-bay as a separate part. Drives in it are running around 4-5 degrees higher than in the other cages, as there's no fan near it. You could open the side panel which has holes for a fan to put an extra fan there, which would help quite a bit I'm sure. Quote Link to comment
ikiwi Posted November 6, 2018 Share Posted November 6, 2018 Hello @Ulvan, will the 4-into-3 cage protrude from the 5.25 drive bays when placed properly (without your custom fan bracket)? I bought the case, but my mobo is dual eatx, so it ends right near the edge of 5.25 bays area Quote Link to comment
Ulvan Posted November 6, 2018 Author Share Posted November 6, 2018 Just now, ikiwi said: Hello @Ulvan, will the 4-into-3 cage protrude from the 5.25 drive bays when placed properly (without your custom fan bracket)? I bought the case, but my mobo is dual eatx, so it ends right near the edge of 5.25 bays area Without the fan the cage can be pushed towards the front of the case by 7-9 cm. A further 2-3 cm if it can be pushed all the way into the front face - haven't tried but eyeballing it might be possible although you might need to cut some metal to do that. Looking at the images above the cage protrudes by a bit more than the width of a 3.5" HDD which are 10 cm wide, so it seems that there is a risk that it won't fit. But if your mobo isn't raised and doesn't have memory sticks where mine does, it still might fit. Lot of weasel words above, but it's hard to tell without testing, unfortunately. Quote Link to comment
ikiwi Posted November 6, 2018 Share Posted November 6, 2018 Seems so Thank you very much for you answer anyway! Quote Link to comment
jrd680 Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 How’s your server coming along? Any storage upgrades lately?Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
Ulvan Posted March 4, 2019 Author Share Posted March 4, 2019 On 2/26/2019 at 4:48 PM, jrd680 said: How’s your server coming along? Any storage upgrades lately? It's going well, thanks! Haven't had any issues. I recently updated two HDDs to 4TB ones, and cleaned her up, quite dusty inside. I've been updating the software every few months as well. I am considering upgrading the parity drive to 8TB or perhaps bigger sometime in the future. Not sure if there are limitations on the due to the old mobo or the cards I'm using, though, so need to do a bit of research. Quote Link to comment
grambo Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 Hi -- can you, or anyone else, tell me where I can purchase a XL R2 drive cage? The manufacturer says they can't sell parts in North America and Puget Sound is no longer selling these parts. Thanks George Hinkle Quote Link to comment
metalslaw Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 On 3/18/2020 at 10:45 AM, grambo said: Hi -- can you, or anyone else, tell me where I can purchase a XL R2 drive cage? The manufacturer says they can't sell parts in North America and Puget Sound is no longer selling these parts. Thanks George Hinkle https://www.fractal-design-shop.de/ I used this site to get some upgraded 3.5" trays to suit the bolt pattern on 6tb+ drives, about 6 months ago. But, they are pretty much out of stock of everything atm. That may just be use to covid, or it may not. There is a way to set an auto notification on the part your after, though the wait might be months to never. Quote Link to comment
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