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These look useful! I'm deciding whether I need to replace fan wall with 3x120mm fans in my 846 chassis or just replace the fans. If I do replace fan wall I'll certainly order these.

This is pretty much what I'd like to do as well. How much did you pay for the fans if you don't mind me asking and where did you buy them from? When I look online they are $20-30 each. Same for CPU heatsink, I'm considering the SM active heatsink but don't mind a cheaper option if its just as...

You make good points about power draw. But I'm not even sure what the power draw of the system I'm considering will be like. What would you recommend as low power build instead? Do you own existing drives that will go into the system? Qty? Yes I do. I have 20 drives ready to go in of various...

Planning to purchase following server from ebay seller - Chassis: CSE-846E16-R1200B, 24 3.5 bays Motherboard: X9DRi-F Backplane: BPN-SAS2-846EL1 cpu: dual E5-2620 v2 controller card: LSI 9211-4i HBA - Is this a good config or do you suggest any changes? I live in an apartment and have been...

Which are the Texas shops? I bought a server from TamSolutions, and everything worked.

I've looked at many of their auctions, but I didn't realize they could do custom builds. I also saw your post on the unRaid forums, I wish more people would go this route rather than building desktop pc's which won't have anywhere near the build quality or expansion.

I bought it for $30 as well, its been working great so far.

No, no, and no. So what do you suggest? Is there any fan thats better than the original fans and is quieter? I'd prefer if they were 80mm and fit in the fan cages, but I am willing to look at 120mm fans too if they are better.

Sorry, that's not my build :) I found that pic to try and show the fan wall arrangement, and I agree with you that it doesn't look very secure. Here's what my current server looks like - It has passive heatsinks which I may have to replace with active ones later on. Is the Arctic F8 still...

I have a SM 846 chassis with 3 80mm mid chassis fans. I bought Arctic F8 fans to replace the default ones (to reduce noise and power) but seller sent me the wrong ones which were not PWM - now I need to order new fans and looking for suggestions. I can get the F8 PWM again, another option I've...

Terry, the reason I want to change fans is to reduce power draw and noise both. I agree the default SM fans are probably a good choice, but the fans that came with my case, 95L4 and 94L4, don't seem to have very high static pressure (0.8) so I'm hoping to find replacements that don't have...

I don't think the fan cage is the problem since it works just fine with the SM fans. I believe my problem may be the fan itself. This is the fan I have - ARCTIC F8 PWM Fluid Dynamic Bearing Case Fan, 80mm PWM Speed Control, 31CFM at 22dBA - Newegg.com. Looks like this - I think this is rev 1...

If I have to order new fans I will, any suggestions will be welcome and I'll do my searching. britinpdx, I've read your post here - Supermicro 846 chassis noise level and seen the SM fan matrix, my chassis came with 3x 95L4 for mid fans and looks like 94L4 for rear. The other option is to...

We have some progress! I connected one of the original fans directly. Bios shows - 'System fan config changed. Fan 3 will be monitored' and indeed, the fan spins at 100% then slows down as soon as bios loads, and inside bios I see its rpm. btw thanks for tip about BMC, somewhere else I read you...

I have seen others here use those fans, Arctic F8 PWM, and I don't remember reading that they were non-standard layouts. I'm a little hesitant removing all the mobo connectors for the fans and redoing everything, I thought that replacing the fans would be a simple matter due to the hotswap...

I didn't think of this, I will try it out. Do I need to do this for all 5 fans or will just or 2 also work? If the connectors were not aligned on the new fan, then it wouldn't power on, right?

Chassis is SC846-R1200B. I replaced all 5 fans with Arctic F8 PWM (AFACO-080P0-GBA01). The Arctic fans have a 4pin PWM plug and the fans end up looking like shown in this post - My (near) silent SC847 The fans are all plugged into the MB header and not into the backplane. This is what I...

I was able to open the rear fan connector. Can you tell me which end to apply the screwdriver to for the mid chassis fan? (the left one in 1st pic)? The open side? There seems to be a lever to lift it up but it doesn't go up?

Trying to replace the stock fans in a SC846 chassis. I got the fans out of the housing but can't release the 4 pin connectors. Is the latch supposed to release and how do I do so? I've tried pressing on it from different angles and don't want to break it. What's the way to do this?

To manage storage I decided on using DrivePool which needs Windows, and I was trying to see which hypervisor I could use.