June 23, 200917 yr So has anyone bought one of these and implemented it? If so how's it working? I have pretty much the same thing although re-branded. The top slot failed pretty quick for me, so I'm only using 4 drives. There may be a bit of a bottle neck when doing parity if you're using all 5 drives over SATA 2 on a PCI-e 1x slot which would be 250/5=50mbytes/sec per drive minus overhead. I still find the whole idea of having it separate from the server a little awkward. Stock cooling fans were uselessly loud and 15mm, I replaced them with fairly silent ones mounted using the same holes but externally with grills which reduced the noise significantly while still maintaining 5-10C above ambient.
July 1, 200917 yr So has anyone bought one of these and implemented it? If so how's it working? I have pretty much the same thing although re-branded. The top slot failed pretty quick for me, so I'm only using 4 drives. There may be a bit of a bottle neck when doing parity if you're using all 5 drives over SATA 2 on a PCI-e 1x slot which would be 250/5=50mbytes/sec per drive minus overhead. I still find the whole idea of having it separate from the server a little awkward. Stock cooling fans were uselessly loud and 15mm, I replaced them with fairly silent ones mounted using the same holes but externally with grills which reduced the noise significantly while still maintaining 5-10C above ambient. I'm in the process of replacing the 8 400 GB drives I have in my server with 1.5 TB ones. I was thinking of this kind of case as a place to use the old 400 GB ones.
July 2, 200917 yr So has anyone bought one of these and implemented it? If so how's it working? I have pretty much the same thing although re-branded. The top slot failed pretty quick for me, so I'm only using 4 drives. There may be a bit of a bottle neck when doing parity if you're using all 5 drives over SATA 2 on a PCI-e 1x slot which would be 250/5=50mbytes/sec per drive minus overhead. I still find the whole idea of having it separate from the server a little awkward. Stock cooling fans were uselessly loud and 15mm, I replaced them with fairly silent ones mounted using the same holes but externally with grills which reduced the noise significantly while still maintaining 5-10C above ambient. Are you sure the fans were less than 3/4 of an inch wide? That's tiny.
July 8, 200917 yr That's 80x80x15mm, 15mm thick. Standard fans are 80x80x25mm. You can find quieter 15mm replacements although airflow is better the way i have it setup. I'll take a picture sometime (it'll be a little while).
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