HL15 webstore needs your feedback

[tangofan]

I haven’t read all the posts in this thread (it’s gotten very long over time), but there are some things that I would like to see in the store, and these things are based on my need and desire to keep the noise of my future HL15 unit in check:

• In addition to Enterprise HDDs offer some NAS HDDs, such as the Seagate IronWolf Pro or the WD Red Pro series. For the capacities that I checked their noise level was below that of an Enterprise HDD. I know I can buy such HDDs in many other places, but one service you might be able to offer is to mix HDDs from different batches for a purchase of multiple drives. Also I’d trust you much more to ship them in a properly packaged than I would amazon or newegg or some such place.

• I do not have my HL15 yet (still contemplating, which specs to buy), but one thing I’m already looking at is to buy some acoustic damping material, since I suspect that the metal case will unfortunately be a strong reflector of HDD vibration noise and of fan noise. Offering such material in a form factor precut for the HL15 (and perhaps even as a pre-built option, might be of interest to those homelabbers, who have to keep their unit near them.

[DigitalGarden]

@tangofan

acoustic damping material

I think someone on the interwebs tried this and there was no effect. Not sure if I can find the post. Depending on what sort of noise level you are going for I think the Noctua upgrade could be enough. But tbh a silent build is only going to happen with SSDs and water cooling.

[tangofan]

@DigitalGarden

I think someone on the interwebs tried this and there was no effect. Not sure if I can find the post. Depending on what sort of noise level you are going for I think the Noctua upgrade could be enough. But tbh a silent build is only going to happen with SSDs and water cooling.

I’m not really interested in a totally silent build, but in a reasonably quiet build. Perhaps I’m thinking too much ahead and shouldn’t worry about that, until I have the unit. But it would be cool to see those results, so if you could find that post, that would be great.

[DigitalGarden]

This was probably it;

Stop echo inside case

So with the cover off the system is much quieter than with the cover on. This is because the noise from my drives echoes through the metal box that is the HL15. I tried adding some Dynamat type material on the inside of the cover above the drives and above the Motherboard/PSU part of the case but no difference in echo. Any good materials I should try? Needs to be a few milimeters thin otherwise it won’t close.

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I don’t know what their fan setup was, if it was the stock fans and full build or something else, but note this is before the Noctua kit was available for purchase…

[Lahry]

Were there any plans to add the HL15 Backplane to the store for a separate purchasable item?

[rymandle05]

Tagging on to this, I’d also like to see more replacement or updated parts added to the webstore in general. For instance, I have the Rev 1 HL15 with the pop out PCIe brackets. I wouldn’t mind having the reusable ones that came with later revisions.

[Vikram-45HomeLabs]

Hi @Lahry,

We do not have any plans to add the backplane as a product on the store. We offer to sell these to the customers who needs them to replace their backplane.