I am very sorry, but I think I have to declare you officially insane ?This will be a long weekend! Test Bench mode OPTION 2 ?
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Nice! Anything I should know about the method that might not be obvious? Do you use the quick disconnects when draining the loop or do you add separate fittings?
Any insight or advice would be very appreciated! Thank you!
right now I got two HDDs in my case, but 2,5" ones, not 3,5" ones - I'd have to sacrifice one fan though
but let's just say, the way I "mounted" them is a little bit.... experimental.
Pretty sure that even IF you find a way to securely mount a pair of 3.5" HDDs, it's going to involve 3M tape which is not going to provide vibration protection for the spinning rust.
Fine for SSDs, really bad for HDDs long term.
I'd personally recommend sticking with a case that can support them properly if you really need more storage than you can manage with M.2 and 2.5" SSDs.
That said, there ARE 4TB SSDs, Sabrent even makes one in M.2 formfactor.
If you can manage the bifurcation setup that @fabio pulled off (was totally planning to do the same by the way, just not with a 2nd GPU because I'm not CRAZY LoL) there are 6.4TB PCIe SSDs that pop up on eBay all the time for really reasonable prices.
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@fabio / @Wahaha360 for the full hood off, muscle car mode, how much height do you have to clear with fans before you can fit radiators wider than 120mm?
ie, would you need 38mm fans to clear the case before mounting something ridiculous like a NexXxos Monsta?
ie, would you need 38mm fans to clear the case before mounting something ridiculous like a NexXxos Monsta?
Posting for the reserve list. Been following this from the begining. As not native speaker didn't post anything, just reading.
Lurker here for about 1½ month... really looking forward to this case and now praying to be part of the small group selected to get a case. really want to get away from my current custom loop and into a smaller case. Always been a huge wish for me - Something like distroplates/lt240 is something i will be going for in this majestic case!
Unfortunately I am new to this community, but trying my luck anyways with the survey. The distroplate is a huge plus for me.
With all that you have done I'm sure you could find a way to make them officially supported
Edit: I went ahead and got out my old 3.5" HDD, and what I found is that yes, there is space for 2 3.5" HDDs if you have no fans, but they barely fit, and there is no room for cables for one of the drives. One 3.5" drive should fit and be able to have a fan installed as well, but you won't be able to use a radiator. You might also be able to fit 2 drives stacked on top of each other if mounted below the PSU, but the motherboard might get in the way. And then there's also the problem that there's no way to mount them, so good luck with that.
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You're right, vibration issue making me sad
If it's easy to add holes on the bottom to properly secure the 2 hdds. although im not asking for this, i'd like to use it since i don't need any fans or rad currently. plus more options always better
I taped mine to some styrofoam to provide protection for that, you could also try using some rubber
but it's definitely not officially supported to put those HDDs in there
I'm thinking maybe there would be a way to 3d-print scaffolding for it? Any chance you could put some pictures up of this or straight up say that nothing more will fit in there so abandon all hope?
If there is physical space for it (which there seems to be per @Navic , a 3D printed bracket would work. Here is one on thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3711265
You can print them yourself or use many of the 3D printing services available.
That could work, but not in the way that it is pictured. It would have to be rotated 90 degrees, so you would attach it to one of the supports instead of two
or maybe simply drill some holes into one L-shaped fan bracket and mount it with some gaskets?
better than nothing suppose ?
better than nothing suppose ?
I know there is always that guy that poses this question when HDDs are brought up, but I'll do it anyway...
Why, in this day and age, where SSDs have the capacity and the low pricing they have, would you ever want an HDD in your main build?
Let's not even put SFF in the equation, b/c that only makes this more rhetorical than it already is... it just makes no sense to me. If you have a ton of photos, film, or music... build a server PC away from your desk to save on the horrific spinning noise and case bulk, and leave all the quiet sex-appeal on your desk to the SFF cases with M.2 drives and SSDs.
I'm not telling anyone how to live their lives or anything, b/c you do you... but I have a hard time even recommending SATA SSDs anymore b/c M.2s are so well priced and have decent capacity, and all without the cable mess lol.
Why, in this day and age, where SSDs have the capacity and the low pricing they have, would you ever want an HDD in your main build?
Let's not even put SFF in the equation, b/c that only makes this more rhetorical than it already is... it just makes no sense to me. If you have a ton of photos, film, or music... build a server PC away from your desk to save on the horrific spinning noise and case bulk, and leave all the quiet sex-appeal on your desk to the SFF cases with M.2 drives and SSDs.
I'm not telling anyone how to live their lives or anything, b/c you do you... but I have a hard time even recommending SATA SSDs anymore b/c M.2s are so well priced and have decent capacity, and all without the cable mess lol.
While we're still on the topic of hard drives and SSDs...you can buy individual brackets from sliger and fix them to the fan brackets. You can convert one fan space and mount four (!) additional 2.5 drives or 1 3.5 drive (in my opinion, 3.5 drives are very space inefficient.
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I finally had a free day and got my ghetto power button yesterday, so I decided to move my PC over to the case today. Like I thought the ridiculously long cables included with the Corsair SF600 platinum make it incredibly crammed and I’ll look into some custom cables. Can anyone recommend something reasonably priced?
I will collect my thoughts tomorrow and finally provide my lengthy feedback via the survey. I’m very sorry for the delay, but with the current situation there were various reasons why I couldn’t build it earlier.
There was one issue I ran into that I didn’t anticipate and I’m pretty sure it’s an issue on my end. Like many others I’m running an Alphacool LT240. Many only use the radiator, but I think the radiator itself is the source of my headache I bought 2 Noctua NF A12x15 PWM fans that I sandwiched between the radiator and the mounting brackets like everyone else seems to do. The issue is that I just cant get the top panel to close. I noticed that Optimum Tech didnt even use scews on his most recent build to get a few more millimeters to play with.
Has anyone experienced a similar issue and found a way to fix it? I'll look into it tomorrow, its midnight already and I should give it a rest for today
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Here's just a quick pic with terrible lighting, but I think you can see what I'm talking about:
I will collect my thoughts tomorrow and finally provide my lengthy feedback via the survey. I’m very sorry for the delay, but with the current situation there were various reasons why I couldn’t build it earlier.
There was one issue I ran into that I didn’t anticipate and I’m pretty sure it’s an issue on my end. Like many others I’m running an Alphacool LT240. Many only use the radiator, but I think the radiator itself is the source of my headache I bought 2 Noctua NF A12x15 PWM fans that I sandwiched between the radiator and the mounting brackets like everyone else seems to do. The issue is that I just cant get the top panel to close. I noticed that Optimum Tech didnt even use scews on his most recent build to get a few more millimeters to play with.
Has anyone experienced a similar issue and found a way to fix it? I'll look into it tomorrow, its midnight already and I should give it a rest for today
.Here's just a quick pic with terrible lighting, but I think you can see what I'm talking about:
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