I know this is a realy old post, but i would like to know if anyone managed to replace the noisy fans in the snt-2131. Which fan did you use? I ended-up not bothering -- using whatever it came with. Was not too bad. I don't use it any more, though. The old machine passed away and the new one has pl...

QuietOC wrote:You might find some medium speed sleeve bearing fan that is slightly better than the current one.

Thanks. Any particular maker and/or model?

Running a software-based RAID 5 with this thing is a very bad idea. Why? It also sounds like you have made a poor choice of drives. Why? The failed one so far did not fail completely -- using smartctl I was able to cause it to remap the bad sectors and have not lost data. The cause of the failure i...

cutting a hole in the top for a slow 120 mm fan No, I'd like the enclosure to be self-contained... The machine has other drives (three SAVVIOs) and running air-ducts inside it is not really an option. Actually with low power drives you would probably be okay without a fan. One of the drives already...

Hello! I'm about to buy the SNT-2131 enclosure to keep three large slow (I call them "barges") SATA drives reasonably happy. Somewhere else on this forum I saw somebody saying, the 80mm (?) fan on the enclosure is noisy, and I'd like to have a better replacement handy to avoid being kicked out of th...

Hello! An otherwise solid machine by Fujitsu-Siemens is having a problem with "FAN 5". According to the manual (PDF), the FAN 5 is identified as: "CK8-04 FAN: Cooling NVidia nForce Pro 2200". Can somebody recommend a good replacement? It is not even clear from the manual, what size that fan is (and ...