tdse13 Posted March 14, 2020 Share #1 Posted March 14, 2020 I am looking for a very silent case for my mini atx Asrock J4105. It should have (at least) 4 bays for 3.5 " drives. Right now I am using a Shuttle XPC cube case which is very noisy. The server is placed in an one room apartment. Therefore, any noise is very anoying. And I would like to use the existing PC61J 300 watt 80 plus power unit from Shuttle. I am not interested in design but in low noise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyride Posted March 14, 2020 Share #2 Posted March 14, 2020 This is what I'm using for mine. The case fan is near-silent, and the power supply fan does not turn at the loads presented by the J4105 motherboard. http://www.u-nas.com/xcart/product.php?productid=17636 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdse13 Posted March 15, 2020 Author Share #3 Posted March 15, 2020 Unfortunately, this case is not available in my region. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poohstyx Posted May 11, 2020 Share #4 Posted May 11, 2020 How much power does the system actually need? Pico PSU? Would you be better without a case? One of the developer platforms or wall mounted? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdse13 Posted May 11, 2020 Author Share #5 Posted May 11, 2020 Right now there are 2 8 TB drives only with a Asrock J4105-ITX board. Actual power consuption 30 - 35 watts. At a later stage I may add up to 2 more additional hard drives. Total power consumption will not exceed 70 watts. Pico PSU could be OK. I prefer a case. Any idea? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smileyworld Posted May 27, 2020 Share #6 Posted May 27, 2020 (edited) On 5/11/2020 at 6:48 PM, tdse13 said: Right now there are 2 8 TB drives only with a Asrock J4105-ITX board. Actual power consuption 30 - 35 watts. At a later stage I may add up to 2 more additional hard drives. Total power consumption will not exceed 70 watts. Pico PSU could be OK. I prefer a case. Any idea? I bought a Cooler Master MasterBox Q300L case and modified it, so it has now 8 hot-swap bays for HDDs. Total costs for case and the HDD cage 50€. My experience regarding noise is that you should look for extreme silent fans and HDDs. For example my NAS is very silent (my guess is about 14db) due to the fact that I put some sound-absorbing material on every surface that I could and chose silent fans and HDDs. Also keep an eye on vibration of the HDDs, which is also an annoying noise and can mess with the lifespan. Nonetheless you can hear it and so I placed it in another room where it doesn't bother me at all. https://geizhals.at/cooler-master-masterbox-q300l-mcb-q300l-kann-s00-a1752080.html?hloc=at Edited May 27, 2020 by smileyworld Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdse13 Posted June 2, 2020 Author Share #7 Posted June 2, 2020 That could be a solution. Could you please provide more information on the cages, vibration reduction and sound absorbing materials. The server is supposed to run 24/7 in a very small apartment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smileyworld Posted June 14, 2020 Share #8 Posted June 14, 2020 (edited) On 6/2/2020 at 9:48 AM, tdse13 said: That could be a solution. Could you please provide more information on the cages, vibration reduction and sound absorbing materials. The server is supposed to run 24/7 in a very small apartment. You can build your own cage. It is just a question of how much effort you want to put in this project. I used some screws, wood, hot glue, paint and two Mini SAS SFF-8087 to SFF-8482 cables. This allowed me to get my hot swap bay. Furthermore I did use some nops and sticked them on every surface where the HDDs have dircet contact with the drive cage (they reduce the vibration and therefore the vibration noise), the other material is from a shop in germany. Nevertheless, I like it completly silent in my home office and therefore I put my NAS in a different room. Also I switched the case recently because I wanted to be able to use more HDD and SSD slots. So i bought some hot swap cages and an used sharkoon rex 8 case and built this: However this is approach is much more expensive and you could go for a 19" server case instead, but I wanted my NAS to be as silent as possible and to fit in a regular case. Edited June 14, 2020 by smileyworld Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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