I have this case. Changed the back 120mm fans but couldn’t change the fan in the side as it’s not standard dimensions. No dust filters sucks and cooling for the CPU is not the best. Using Ryzen 5 65TDW CPU and it gets pretty quickly to 90 degrees C when using it for unraring large files. HDD cooling is fine with around 33 degrees for 18TB exos drives when all are in use.
You mean to tell me that a CPU that's designed to opportunistically boost to 90-105C is boosting to 90C? That's horrifying. You should force it to an arbitrarily-lower speed and spend ton of money on extra cooling because um... BECAUSE!
As a thought, maybe you could have a hardware config with a pre-designed set of tests that you run in all of these reviews? So we can get an idea of noise and heat performance.
As a "thought project" I came up with a compact case layout that holds a full sized ATX-MB, 24-SATA SSD drives, 8-SATA HDD drives, 3 8-port SATA controllers and One 10GB network card. (all low profile cards) The hold up from what I can see is finding a power supply with enough 5Vs to run all those SATA SSD drives and everything else. From what I can find SATA SSD drives draw between 4 and 8 watts of 5v, no 12v, and if you take that times 24 drives I exceed the 5v limit of every power supply I can find, just for the SSD drives. At 4 or 8 watts per drive that's 96 to 192 watts or 19 to 38 amps of 5v. Do those little SSD drives really draw that much 5v power? I selected this particular drive configuration with the idea that the SSD drives will become cheaper and more common in the future, so they will be the primary storage in RAID arrays and the HDD drives will provide backup storage. Having backup drives in the same box is the only way I can see to do the backups in a reasonably short period of time. All data needs to have a backup. What single power supply has the strength to power that much equipment?
The K7 8 bay nas case, may be a few centimeters bigger, but does not allow enough space for an sfx psu. It does allow space for a uatx mobo. As an K7 owner I can say that this unas is preferable. The k7 has cheap noisy fans that I had to upgrade this alone makes up the price difference.
Big fan of the channel. Here's a constructive comment if you want it. When you put the specs on the screen, you should indicate if the pci express is full height or not. Sure enough, we can see it during the video but it would be a shame to lose viewers before they get there. 😊
It picks up fingerprints easily? That's a deal-killer. I'm *constantly* stroking and caressing my NAS and I care greatly for both its physical appearance and the amount of hand oil on it. Do a shot every time he calls a motherboard a "card", for some reason. "I can't test the fans." You don't have a simple 12v power supply? 17:00 "Though it does support those ATX boards..." no, it doesn't. 17:08 "Those mITX boards" Bruh, MATX != ATX != Micro ITX. You missed the mounting point for a 2.5" SSD. They want you to buy the "16X PCIe Extension Kit for NSC-800 and 810A Server Chassis" for the PCIE slots.
You don't mention much about the (drive) LED indicators? Also not on your review on the website? I can see in 1x picture that the drive-bays seem to have 2x leds per tray and according to their website, 1x led is for power-indication and 1x led for drive-activity. Per tray. It is the season of the year but isn't that a wee bit too much Christmas lighting? I do like to see drive-activity but power-status per drive is a bit excessive in my opinion. Unless they use the power-led to indicate drive-faults? Availability is also a thing locally over here. Indeed, they should include the (9,99 according to their own website) riser-cable. A display (or room for it, e.g a Raspberry Pi) would have made a nice solution. Right now, with the sizing-restrictions (indeed, as you mentioned also for a substantial CPU cooler) and non-availability, I would opt for one of the other chassis you showed earlier. Pass.
The more i watch reviews the more i think the perfect case doesn't exist :/ Seriously, what would you install a mATX mobo in there if you can't use expansion slots ??? Why don't they make the same case but 200mm taller where you could fit a 4090 if you needed one ????
I would really like to know the temperatures of a fully populated system with 8x 7200rpm drives. Iam betting the drive will be cooked or you 15.000rpm Server fans.
100%, plus the deals me and Ed ACTUALLY think are deals again. Got some new tools for this + a bunch of info from some retailers. Will get on this ASAP
Since you are reviewing these build yourself cases Im a big fan of this channel. Really don’t care for the underpowered all in one solutions. I own the N2 but mis the expansion of an mATX and would have loved the N3 just be the N2 but made compatible for mATX-boards.
Please dona follow up. Cant find videos of this anywhere. I want to see a full build with a gpu to see how everything fits together and how loud. Please 🙏🙏🙏
The sad truth is that I think it will now never come. The DS423 arrived..but with Synology about to launch the BST /Bee series (which is a streamlined and pre-populated system), I think this is the killing blow for the J series and the DS120j, DS223j and DS420j will be the last entries!
Where would we get the odd looking "special " pwr supply. I work in IT and even im confused. What is a 1u pwr supply. Normally on the pc side of the house you get what is a normal pwr supply. Please explain?
