Hi Guys,
Thanks for the kind words! Yes, the enclosure is expensive.
I actually considered taking the internals from the Echo Express SE and making my own case for it, but it really does struggle to push power through the PCIE slot.
I suspect that was leading to the instability I was seeing on Titan initially.
It would have been a way cheaper option!!!
Oh well.
Righto, time for first impressions.
It's stable!
I haven't had any issues whatsoever in terms of performance or stability, unlike what I was seeing with the SE version.
So far I am very impressed, but there is one big con.
The fans are bloody noisy!
I only have shitty mics, so I can't really demonstrate on video. They're not as bad as the banshee that lived in the SE before I chopped it out, but they are loud enough to be annoying.
As this is meant to be the final enclosure i settle on, it's up to me to fix it. I don't want to completely remove cooling from this enclosure, because I'm also going to be sticking an SSD in it soon and the Titan can really heat up small spaces.
Ultimately, I'd like to replace them, but they seem to be 76mm fans, unless I measured them wrong.
So in the meantime I'm going to quiet them up somehow
Here's a comparison with a Scythe KAMA
They even look cheap!
I have some old speed reducing cables for PC fans that were kicking around in my box of parts. They should work fine for this.
I'm just going to place the resistor from the cables in line with these horrible little things
Then I just need to neaten things up again and make sure there is no slack to get in the way of things
And the final results?
Magic, nice and quiet, still getting decent-ish air flow too.
I'd still like to replace them, but at least they're not driving me nuts for now.
I remeasured them too and they're 80mm, so I need to find some quiet and thin 80s to put in their places.
Any suggestions?
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To be honest, this thread was the first I'd heard of the AkiTio Thunder2. It looks awesome, I'm sure that would have been a far cheaper way to go.
I really did want an enclosure that included everything. I'm also going to fit my Windows SSD in the Sonnet, so 3 slots was essential.
I briefly looked at the Magma ExpressBox 3T, but it is very expensive and didn't look as flexible as the Sonnet.
Overall there are few options for us out there.
When will Asus get around to releasing the XG Station 2?!!