After a bit or research I have gone for a Seasonic SSR-550RT. The PSU that burnt out was a Silverstone Strider ST40F-ES which lasted 4 years.
Don't think the PSU is able to be rescued the wiring to the HDD's is melted.
This morning I came downstairs to a burning smell in my media room. Turns out the server PSU has had a problem resulting in burnt out power wires to a couple of HDD's one in particular is a write off as the power socket has melted.
Strangely the server continued to work, the PSU did not...
I use one of the USB ports on the Rt-N66U to connect to my smartphone so if my broadband goes down I have a backup that gets me back on line using the phones 3g.
David
Are you looking to save energy or cost? You can spend a load of cash on upgrades that you will never recoup and your energy use at the socket will reduce but this will be offset by the energy used during the manufacturing of the products you buy. So unless you are planning to upgrade anyway then...
From the airflow diagram I assume you have installed the PSU fan back to front as normally the PSU fan is an intake. IMO this is bad news as you will be sucking in unfiltered dust which will eventually cover the PSU internals and cause a malfunction.
David
But length of warranty has nothing to do with life expectancy. I generally replace a PSU after roughly 4 years of use, so if you replace the CX and the AX after 4 years what has the cost difference been? At today's Newegg prices you are spending $135 more on the AX to save $64 of electricity (NY...
By your own calculations that is only a few bucks a year. But I guess it depends on what you consider a few bucks to equate too. What is the price difference between your AX860 and the CX600? If you assume a PSU has a five year life then I hope the difference is less than $50.
What about the Fractal Design Arc Midi.
The case will mount an H100 in the top in a push pull configuration. In fact the case has multiple water cooling configuration options.
David
I moved the top 140mm fan to the front of the case so I have two 140mm intakes and one 140mm exhaust. My drives idle at about 30°c or slightly less, my CPU idles at about 29°c and under light load server duties no more than 35°c. The FD Arc midi will take 6 140mm fans so cooling is not going to...
Its a great case, I have just moved my home server into it and even with 7 HDDS it is very quiet. The cable management is excellent with plenty of space behind the mobo to hide cables. There are two locations behind the mobo location for installing SSD's.
David
Fractal Design Arc Midi R2, approx £75. Loads of space, 3x 140mm silent fans included (all filtered) with an inbuilt fan controller, side window, watercooling support, ticks all the boxes.
David
I have just moved my home server into this Fractal Design case
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...al%20midi%20r2
For a dual gpu setup the cooling in the case is superb, it comes with 3 140mm fans. The build quality is extremely good.
David
If you buy the correct size connector for the cable then they will just screw onto the outer sheath very tightly. The inner copper contact doesn't make contact to any part of the connector.
David
Just realised i hadnt responded to this thread............I swapped the BeQuiet 300watt with a Silverstone 400watt PSU and everything is OK now, the BeQuiet is now in my desktop and works ok too so I don't know what the issue was but its fixed.
Thanks for the help.
David
So in your world its OK to call someone in a thread and idiot and in another one of your posts in another thread asking if they are retarded? That's rude. I don't have any issue with the message, I think you make some interesting points but your message is diluted when you resort to uncalled for...
It a misnomer that cases can be "silent" as all cases are silent, its the components that make the noise. All the sound dampening on silent cases just reduces vibration and reverberation of the case but noisy components in a "silent" case make a noisy case. As already stated look at replacing...
I think the Fractal Design Define Mini and Arc Mini are great 6-9 HDD cases compatible with microATX motherboards of if ATX is your thing then the Define R3 or R4 or the Arc Midi cases are good, these should be good for 8-11 HDD's.
David
It doesn't shutdown immediately usually after 5 -10 mins. I can disconnect any drive and the copy works ok I just cant have an eigth drive connected. The PSU has 3 SATA and 2 IDE power connectors, I am using all of the SATA power and have an IDE to 4x SATA converter powering 4 other drives...
The HDD's are;
2x 500GB SATAII - Seagate Barracuda ST3500630AS
2x 1TB SATAII - Hitachi HDS721010CLA332
2x 1TB SATAIII - Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003-1CH162
1x 120GB SATAII - WD Scorpio Blue WDC WD1200BEVT-00A23T0
The drive disappears from disk management, it is always the drive I am copying...
I am looking for a PSU for my WHS2011 server. The spec. is............
CPU: i3-3220
Mobo: ASRock H77 Pro4-M
RAM: 8gb DDR3 1600
HDD : 2x 500GB SATAII, 2x 1TB SATAII, 2x 1TB SATAIII, 1x 120GB SATAII
Existing PSU: 300w BeQuiet L7 Pure Power
I want to add an eigth drive (2TB SATAIII) but I think...
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