Comments on: Norco ITX-S4 – Review and Build

By: M2m

M2m — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 02:25:40 +0000

I would be interested in this chassis, but does it fit A Quadro K1200 (length, hight) ?

https://www.pny.com/nvidia-quadro-k1200-displayport

By: Jeremy Couch

Jeremy Couch — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 15:12:50 +0000

I bought this case and it has worked decently for me. I only have one problem with it.
The drive sleds connect to the sata ports just fine but the blue tinted latches that lock the drive sled in place are cheap and pop out as soon as you try to lock the drive sled in place. It does not do this without a drive in it but it does when a drive is screwed into the drive sled. There is just to much tension on the on the locking mechanism with the drive to stay locked in place. The drive does not disengage the sata port but the cosmetics of it is very undesirable and not what I payed for. I am going to attempt to glue one of the cheap latches on the latch arm and see if it will stay in place.

By: Jim Piunti

Jim Piunti — Sat, 06 Sep 2014 20:39:23 +0000

Thanks, Patrick, for the fine review. I have plans for this case and an Asrock ITX board as my new HTPC/home server. There aren’t many reviews on this case and I imagine that spacing is tight for a CPU cooler. Which one did you use and how did it perform for you?

By: Jeremy Ellington

Jeremy Ellington — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 16:49:11 +0000

While the design of this case is very neat, there are some glaring issues with how it is constructed, with catastrophic results.

I purchased one case which I proceeded to assemble and had issues sliding hard drives, mounted in the supplied drive sleds, into the enclosure. They just don’t line up quite right.

After fighting with it and not having the installed drives recognized, the machine refusing to boot with drives installed or rebooting when drives were inserted while it was running. I realized that the case/backplane was shorting out the hard drives and frying the controller boards on them.

I notified Norco, who shipped out a new case… WHICH HAD THE EXACT SAME ISSUE! I disassembled the case and illustrated the misalignment of the backplane circuit board to their representative, who repeatedly claimed that no one else had experienced this issue. The backplane circuitboard works just fine outside of the case, but mounted in the case, it doesn’t line up to the sata ports correctly and makes inserting drives difficult. The uninsulated drive sleds are slightly bowed on both units and rest against the bare circuit board of the drive… that coupled with the backplane misalignment is most likely the root of the issue.

I hope that is true, because my experience has been nothing but heartache. You have been warned.