I've only had it running a little server at the office at room temperature, but haven't experienced any heat issues.
Granted, it hasn't had much load beyond what I've been playing with on it. The HDD is about 12-13mm above the board itself and probably 2-3mm from the lid. Without having actually measured it I would eyeball the distance between the bottom of the disk to the top of the miniPCI slot to roughly 4-5mm. I have fitted a pretty large 3com miniPCI ethernet card in just to see how well it would fit and have had no heat issues with that either, there was plenty of room, of course it cut down the distance ti the disk to about 1-2mm right where the miniPCI card is, but it haven't caused any issues. The trick to placing the cable is to screw the two back screws in only half so you can nugde up the bracket, then place the cable like on the pictures, then just put in the two front screws and tighten the back ones. Once the cable is properly bend it will pretty much stay that way after it's been under pressure for a couple of days. Of the SATA cables I've tested with the box, the one chosen is by far the most flexible and the one with the shortest connectors. On Dec 11, 2007 12:55 PM, Igor Sobrado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Igor Sobrado writes: > > > > I have not received mine yet but... I think that the mounting kit is > > face down (on http://rip.psg.com/~randy/071211.soek-sata/P1010429.jpg.html > > the left side looks like the right side of the kit). > > Hmmm... looking carefully at the pictures, it seems that it is not really > faced down, the left side of the mounting kit has a hole on it to fit the > power and SATA connectors. René Luckow's pictures will probably help > routing the cables and placing the disk on the right holes (however, it > seems that your disk is using the right holes for a SATA drive now). I was > confused by the way the HDD mounting kit on the net4801 is installed (i.e., > over the mounting kit, not under it) and the fact that it seems there is > some free space between the disk and the top cover of the net5501 case. > > You are right, from the pictures you provided it seems that there is no > much space between the board and the disk drive. > > Best regards, > > Igor. > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > > -- Kind regards René Luckow _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
