Reddit reviews Deep Silence 6 Super Tower HPTX Case for Sensitive Audio Workstation and Storage Dense Applications, Black
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Ultimate in silence with a lot of mass around the perimeter, decoupled drive mounts, ultra thick metalwork and dense sound proofing materials; This is our best computer case for sensitive audio workstation at recording facility.Designed for storage-dense applications with 10 easy swap HDD sleds and 6 SSD cage; Expandable to 18 HDD/SSD via additional drive cages and by utilizing 5.25 inch to 3.5 adapters.Optional assembly of two 140 mm fans via mounting bracket (behind HDD cage) improves disk ventilation and ensures cool air reaches your equipments; Bottom third HDD cage can be repositioned toward the PSU.Easy to clean front fan brackets and dust filters that swing out without opening the case; Total control over airflow and noise with 8 x 3-pin fan controller and 5 high quality rifle bearing fans.Active Air Chimney fans on the top are shut off until you slide a switch on the side, raising the top vents and turning the fans on automatically; Fits HPTX, E-ATX, XL-ATX and ATX motherboards.
Raw storage:
Total 108TB(18 drives)
Actual storage:
Total 72TiB
Case:
Used the two bay 3.5" cage, and three bay 2.5" cage from the Deep Silence 3 case.
Fans:
Used two 120mm case fans from the Deep Silence 3 case between the two stacks of drives.
Motherboard: Supermicro X10SRA-F
CPU: Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3 3.5GHz
Heatsink: Noctua DH-D15
RAM:
Total 48gb
PSU: Corsair AX1500i
Controllers:
Total 20 ports
NIC: Mellanox Connectx-2 10g
OS Disks: 2 x Intel 330 60GB, mdadm RAID1
Storage Disks:
Seven shucked from Best Buy WD easystore externals and two from Amazon as internals.
I originally shucked the Seagates from externals. I have replaced the Seagates as they fail, and I had one fail during this upgrade. Yes, I have had five Seagate failures.
SATA/SAS cables:
OS: Fedora 25 with ZFS for Linux
Cost:
The cost was spread across years. This is more like two builds in one. My old build with the motherboard, memory, heatsink, CPU, and 4tb drives combined with my new 8tb build. With the 4tb drives I have replaced five of nine drives over time, which has driven up the real total cost.
The case is huge, but all the space is nice. You don't feel like you are cramming anything in. I used a Fractal Design R5 for my previous build, and prefer Fractal Design cases to Nanoxia cases. But the biggest Fractal Design case wouldn't quite suit my needs. Even this was a stretch for the Deep Silence 6 case. I wish the Deep Silence 6 had spots to mount 2.5" drives on the back side like the R5. It is a feature I miss.
I have a few issues. The trays and the screw holes on the WD 8tb drives don't match. The WD drives are missing the middle bottom screw holes. My temporary workaround is strong 3M double sticky foam tape with two screws. I may use a drill and drill holes in the sides of the trays. I had to tape down the 2.5" cage, but the drives are so light it is not a big deal.
After building this beast I had the window closed, the door shut, and no room fan for one day. The room was quite warm. I have since opened the window, turned on the fan, and left the door open.
My Kill-a-watt peaked at 450 watts during boot. It idles between 200-220 watts. So I could go back to my AX760 from my previous build with SATA power splitters.
I still have one tray free, but no extra drive or SATA port.
I was originally going to move the four bay 3.5" cage from the Deep Silence 3, but it was just too integrated into the case. I tried adapting it, and it didn't come out well. Even if it had, the bottom tray was going to sit below the lip of the side of the case. So that tray would have been less accessible.
I am currently copying 18tb from the old array to the new array as a burn-in test.
I got the original idea to build with this case from someone else's post. I probably would have just bought another Fractal Design R5, and run two systems otherwise. I have run two systems for storage before, connected them with 10g, and used iSCSI. When I did I used, https://romanrm.net/mhddfs , to merge the filesystems together. I am considering doing the same again.
With the right cages you could probably fit around 26 3.5" drives in this case.
Over time I have gone from 250gb to 500gb to 1tb to 1.5tb to 2tb to 4tb to 8tb drives. I didn't think I would be upgrading to 8tb anytime soon, until the Best Buy easystore deal. In the past I mostly purchased on Black Fridays. In more recent years externals from Costco.
TLDR: I built a new server combining an existing 24TiB ZFS with a new array of 36TiB ZFS for the win!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DSFDSUS/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1 <- I use this. Currently has 20 3.5" drives and 2 2.5" drives. I can hold even more but my GPU is in the way.
> they are big
Wow, amazon even refers to is as a "gigantic big tower". They really want to make sure you realize it is big.
This is a significant jump in price, and perhaps overkill, but the Deep Silence 6 case will fit 13x3.5" + 4x5.25". With slight mods it could fit another 4x3.5" drive cage.
With a sas card (or 3) this would provide lots of storage while not being a rack server.
Just a thought.
> nanoxia 6
The Nanoxia Deep Silence 6 is purpose built for silence. When you go for a quiet build you usually lose some airflow. It would be great with some 970's but I have two 980ti's and they put out a lot of heat. It's not a bad case but it's like comparing apples to oranges.
https://www.amazon.com/Silence-XL-ATX-Dampening-Radiator-Mounts/dp/B00DSFDSUS?th=1
You can get a window too.
Something maybe a bit more stylish:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811139055
Nanoxia Deep Silence 6 Rev. B Gigantic Big/Full Tower Computer Case
https://www.amazon.com/Nanoxia-Controllers-Motherboard-Radiators-NXDS6B/dp/B00DSFDSUS/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1493587974&amp;sr=8-2-spons&amp;keywords=Nanoxia&amp;psc=1
My google-fu returns this: https://www.amazon.com/Silence-Sensitive-Workstation-Storage-Applications/dp/B00DSFDSUS?psc=1&amp;SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&amp;tag=duckduckgo-iphone-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=B00DSFDSUS
Price check for my previous computer as a whole. Used for moderate gaming for ~3 years:
Motherboard: ASUS Rampage V Extreme
CPU: Intel Core i7 5820K
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2400
Case: Nanoxia Deep Silence 6. Revision A, NOT B. No Window.
Drive Bay 1: Rosewill RCR-IC002 - 74-in-1 Internal Card Reader with USB 2.0 Ports & Extra Silver Face Plate
Drive Bay 2: LITE-ON Black 12X BD-R 2X BD-RE 16X DVD+R 12X DVD-RAM 8X BD-ROM SATA 12X Blu-ray Burner
GPU: NONE
HDD/SSD: NONE
And if you're really looking for a huge case, check this guy out, looking at reviews for both this is pretty much what I had hoped the Define XL R2 would be like when I first found out about it.
Amazon doesn’t seem to carry it anymore, but it’s a rosewill b2 spirit. Same case as the deep silence 6 but without sound dampening. Here’s the link to the deep silence 6. Only thing you have to do is get 5.25 to 3.5 converters. But the 4 dvd drive bays convert to 6 hard drive bays
Deep Silence 6 Super Tower HPTX Case for Sensitive Audio Workstation and Storage Dense Applications, Black https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DSFDSUS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_M2BpDb5EPDDV1