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    SFF Home NAS

    I agree with the SFX power supply. think the best available at the moment - at least on the German market - is the Corsair SF450. Test on ComputerBase. The only drawback is the lack of an ATX adapter plate. I bought this one: SilverStone PP08 SFX zu ATX. The Fractal Design is a good case. I decided to spend a bit more and went with the Lian Li PC-Q25B because of the hot swap bays - ok, not really hot swap, since the back planes lack condensators and removing a drive will restart all other drives. Therefore I recommend to power the system down anyway. The back planes are nice for cable management though. Connect all 5 SATA ports and the 3 power connectors when you set up the system and unless you want to change the mainboard you won't have to bother with that again when adding or exchanging drives. The recommendation for a SFX PSU is for the Lian Li as well, it makes things less cramped and gives you about 95 mm for a CPU cooler if you want to go with something other than the boxed cooler. - The boxed cooler is ok though, comparatively quiet in that case, same goes for the preinstalled case fans, quiet with fan management. There are lots of theads for both cases if you want to look into that further. Noise: The Corsair's fan woudn't be used with your hardware, except for a few seconds when the system gets powered on. The Seagate Ironwolf is comparatively hot and noisy. If you want to place your NAS in the living room, bedroom or a quiet office you should choose other drives, like the WD Red. Those 3 to 4 db that the Ironwolf is louder in idle and under load make a difference in quiet surroundings.