Originally posted by: czech09
Originally posted by: labgeek
That's my problem... I want black, and knowing the silver is $10, I don't want to spend $30 ea on the black ones. Guess I'm just a cheap arse.
FWIW, I have 3 silver ones from SVC mounted in a black case and they look just fine. I was skeptical but these did make a noticeable (7-10 deg C) difference on my hot running Maxtors.
As others have stated, the software is rather quirky and sometimes won't talk to the unit or forgets the names I've assigned to the different temp/fan channels. A real annoying bug is that even though the display can show 9 characters the software gives an array bounds error if you put in more than 8 .
Tip for those installing multiple units but not needing 12+ fan/temp channels (I mean who really needs to monitor 12 temps in their case?!?): You can unplug the fan/temp leads you don't need so you don't have a big ball of wires to deal with in the case. Clip the two cable ties with the fan/temp leads, remove the 4 bottom screws in the black cover, and the 4 side screws near the front. You can then slide the electronics out of the front (you will have to work the power & usb leads through the cable ties to give some slack). Unplug which ever temp/fan sensors you won't need. I left temp channel 3 connected and mounted the sensor to the back of the drive so Fan 3 and Temp 3 are for the contained hard drive.
I ran the 3 USB connections through the back of the case and plugged them all into a small non-powered 4 port USB hub so I'm only using one mobo USB port (btw, I had the software connection issues even with the cables plugged directly into ports).
Overall, well worth $10 + shipping a pop, I doubt I'd pay more than $20 though.