Hi all - has anybody put an SFX PSU in the HL15 ? I want to gain as much as room possible for a 3d printed SSD cage behind the PSU.
Hi,
I don’t believe I’ve seen anyone attempt this configuration before, but I don’t see any obvious issues with it.
As long as the power supply has enough Molex connectors available, and the connectors are not all on the same cable run (this helps distribute the current draw required by the drives), it should work. You would also need an ATX-to-SFX mounting adapter for installation.
That said, this is not a configuration that we have tested internally, so while it appears viable in theory, there may be unforeseen compatibility or stability issues that we have not encountered.
If you decide to move forward with the setup, I’d be interested to hear how it works out for you.
I’ll keep the thread posted. Was going SF1000 from corsair but when shopping i changed up and I’m pulling the trigger on a Lian Li SP1000P Platinum 1000W SFX.
UPDATE: SFX PSU was so cute - it’ so small !! But the Corsair and the Lian Li only have 3 pata/sata (peripheral) connections on the back. I need 4 for the backplane and running 4 U.2 drives which need 2 molex’s as well.
I ended up getting the Super Flower Leadex VIII Platinum PRO 1000W - which uses the “universal” connector on the back. It’s only 125mm deep (55mm shorter than Corsair RM1000x which ships with prebuilt HL15’s. Now this isn’t an easy solution - I had to take the video card cables and hack them up to build 4 x short pata/molex cables. Plenty of power and room & saves 2" off the length of the PSU. And the Super Flower is a great PSU.
I still have a huge atx cable and long u.2 cables so fitting in a U.2 caddy is still a work in progress. Might need to customize/shorten my atx cables - and that isn’t really my strong suit.
Just a note - in case it isn’t obvious. the connections are universal but all of them don’t have the same number or configuration of pinouts. great care must be taken to modify vga cables to be molex cables. I used existing molex cables as a guide and read voltages with a multimeter before convincing myself to power the backplane with my custom cables.
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Here is what i ended up with - the SSD caddy is not a good design. you have to put all the drives in and then screw to the case. A better design would be a clip on the case that the caddy could slide into and click. the side facing the HDD fans is open to allow just a tiny bit of air flow between the NVME’s.
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Cool mount and neat idea!
Looks like you could fit 4 more SSDs if you were to delete the midplane.