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DAN A4-SFX v4.1
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Nice to see a v2 is on the way ! Did the first version go over smoothly, no "logistical nightmares" or issues ? Still a one-man company ?
I can't but feel much respect for the people behind DanCase, Ncase, Zaber and Kimera what the amount of time and effort go into logistics.
I can't but feel much respect for the people behind DanCase, Ncase, Zaber and Kimera what the amount of time and effort go into logistics.
For some international countries the shipment was a bit slow because of using economy shipping. For v2 I will use premium shipping. But everything else went well.
Yes still a one man company
Yes still a one man company
@dondan with the release of the rx 580, I'm interested in trying to fit the asus strix in my Dan A4. However, the card is measured at 298 mm, but I believe that includes the bracket. I've seen people fit the 1080 strix in the case previously. I know youre a busy dude, especially with designing the 48mm heatsink, but any info you could provide would be awesome.
@dondan Few improvements proposal:
– Substitute round ventilation holes by hexagonal ones. For the same mechanical strength, it would offer extra open surface area for greater cooling, and still great visual.
– Add support for 3.5" drives in the existing vertical bay. This would enable mounting high capacity HDD, at the cost of an elongation of roughly a centimeter.
– Substitute round ventilation holes by hexagonal ones. For the same mechanical strength, it would offer extra open surface area for greater cooling, and still great visual.
– Add support for 3.5" drives in the existing vertical bay. This would enable mounting high capacity HDD, at the cost of an elongation of roughly a centimeter.
Why would you want to use a 3.5" drive? They're loud and high capacity SSDs are available now...
Hex holes will only increase the cost of the case for no improvement in performance. Temps are currently only 1-2 degrees above an open air setup. See Dan's tests in the development thread on hardforum.com.
A removeable internal drive cage (V1) supports 2ea. 2.5" drives and the front panel can accommodate 1 more. Plus many motherboards offer M.2 drive support. There is already plenty of storage capacity in this case. 2.5" drives are relatively affordable at reasonably large capacities (SSD or HDD). If you need more storage, suggest you look into an external enclosure or NAS (which can provide better protection for all that data) or maybe see if you can use a short GPU and use the extra space in the GPU area to mount a 3.5" drive somehow.
Dan is limited by Lian Li's tooling so that's not practical. It's the same reason the exterior panels on the M1 are limited to 1.5mm, Lian Li's tooling for the vent pattern can only deal with aluminum that thick.
Also, the use of slow 3.5" drives is so yesterday. They are far too unwieldy to be considered SFF worthy.
At a cost! High capacity SSD are costly, and some would prefer HDD+SSD as it would be more affordable, still delivering similar performances.
That's not because one can spend a lot of money that everyone can afford it; nor disregarding these persons!
While that may be true right now, it may very well not be within two years:
http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3678417
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1331223
At the price point the A4 is hitting, it should last a good deal longer than this.
You missed the point...the difference in cost between NAND-based SSD's and HDD's will reduce so much that there will no longer be demand for HDD's. Then, it will be cheaper to get a GB of SSD than HDD.
Also, there are already 4TB SSD's and will just get larger with more layers in 3D NAND stacks. So any notion that SSD's won't be able to handle capacity shouldn't be of worry.
Also, there are already 4TB SSD's and will just get larger with more layers in 3D NAND stacks. So any notion that SSD's won't be able to handle capacity shouldn't be of worry.
