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Originally Posted by ypsylon
Hmm for some serious RAID it is stupid idea. They should create 2U backplane for 12x 2.5" drives. It would be possible to mount 1 or 2 80mm fans for proper cooling.
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Keyword here is 'space'
some peoples HTPC might only have enough room for 1 optical drive.
However I a 12x2.5 varient should be made available but then again if you are gonna purchase 12 laptop hard drives then that would be not only a waste of time but also a waste of money, given the price you are going to pay you could buy 2 512GB Samsung SSDs to raid and they would probably give you better performance then any raid setup will give you not to mention, less noise, less power consumption and less reason to buy a RAID or SATA expansion card so you can hook up more hard drives to your PC.
Secondly, who says it has to be used specifically for raid??
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Originally Posted by ypsylon
There is no such thing as quiet 40mm fan. All of those work like little hairdryers, making your life miserable. 40mm fans are good used as pencil sharpeners, not for cooling.
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Maybe with some careful undervolting, noise might be acceptable. but then again it probably wouldnt move much air. All the more reason to fill it with SSDs