{"id":186,"date":"2014-12-21T14:44:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T04:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmonro.net\/blog\/?p=186"},"modified":"2014-12-21T14:44:14","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T04:14:14","slug":"a-minor-case-mode-for-the-coolermaster-haf-stacker-915r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.davidmonro.net\/index.php\/2014\/12\/21\/a-minor-case-mode-for-the-coolermaster-haf-stacker-915r\/","title":{"rendered":"A minor case mod for the CoolerMaster “HAF Stacker 915R”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I bought a CoolerMaster “HAF Stacker 915R<\/a>” case for a new mini-ITX server I’m building, based around the ASRock AM1H-ITX<\/a> board. I bought mostly because it was cheap, but also because it claimed you could mount a lot of fans (6x 120mm or 4x 140mm) on the side panels. What I didn’t realize until I was installing drives in it was that you can’t have the side panel fans and the drive cage installed at the same time:<\/p>\n

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No room on this side<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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No room on this side either<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As delivered, the case has the drive bay mounted at the front cooled by a 92mm fan in the front panel – but that didn’t work for me, partly because the fan cable for the front fan doesn’t reach back as far as the motherboard! In addition, the motherboard I am using has the option of being driven by a 19V external DC power supply, at which point it supplies power to the drives from a SATA power socket on the board – and that cable couldn’t reach the drive bays either.<\/p>\n

So I decided that instead of mounting the drives across the case, I’d rotate the bay 90% and run them front-to-back. 4 small holes later..<\/p>\n

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4 small holes drilled<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now there is room for the fan at the side:<\/p>\n

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Plenty of room!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You can still get the drives in and out of the bays without having to remove it from the case:<\/p>\n

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The tray fits between the front panel and the cage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There’s plenty of clearance for the fan:<\/p>\n

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There is only just clearance between the front edge of the motherboard and the rear of the drive. Note that because I’m using the DC input on this board, I don’t need to use the ATX power connector, so potentially fouling that isn’t an issue for this build.<\/p>\n

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I’m now much more confident that the drives will get the cooling they need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently I bought a CoolerMaster “HAF Stacker 915R” case for a new mini-ITX server I’m building, based around the ASRock AM1H-ITX board. I bought mostly because it was cheap, but also because it claimed you could mount a lot of fans (6x 120mm or 4x 140mm) on the side panels. What I didn’t realize until […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidmonro.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidmonro.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidmonro.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidmonro.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidmonro.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidmonro.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidmonro.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidmonro.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidmonro.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}