Tale: The Kamariki and the Wolf

Scythe’s goal with FenrisWolf was to create an ultra-lightweight, unique, quality, easy-to-carry house. Although the Japanese company is not short of talented engineers and designers, for some reason in this case, the design was outsourced to Germany by a young guy named Banjamin Franz. They did not make any mistakes in the choice of the manufacturer, as they really managed to create a modern and quality house, and in this case, the reasons are irrelevant.

Take a closer look at the new Scythe "miracle"!

External

As already mentioned, the housing is very light, weighing only 6 kg, to achieve this competitive weight (which is actually weight) it was necessary to use 100% aluminum. However, the shiny silver color was not considered appropriate, 99% was chosen instead, with the exception of the silver frame of the brushed aluminum front panel. This is asked to be taken so seriously that the manufacturer has not only polished the areas that are often seen, but very demandingly every single frame and plate up to the last square inch, and even the screws. It doesn’t seem like a big deal, but it feels like attention, thoroughness, and so we get a really special design.

Boy Benjamin knew that in order for the house to be dragged from one side of the net to another without the use of special antiperspirants, a box that had not been made too large, despite the aluminum, made FenrisWolf a jawy midi tower. It doesn’t look big on the outside, but - thanks to the thoughtful design - it already feels more spacious on the inside and can be conveniently mounted. A pretty door on the front panel hides the sight of the drives from the voyeur eyes.

It sets the basic mood of the house with a simple, yet beautiful, silver-framed ventilation grill in the middle and the indispensable Scythe logo. It opens to the right, unfortunately it is not possible to change the direction. Behind the door, there are quite a few openings for a total of 5 external 5,25″ units, with the buttons and LEDs on top. If we look below, we can see that a fan was installed behind the surface, but not "just like that", but practically a Kama Bay was included, which contains a Slip Stream 12 cm (800 RPM) model. The front panel outputs are located above this time behind a flip-up door that contains an eSATA, two USB and audio-related ports.

We executed the front of the house, let's see what's in the back!

The rear of FenrisWolf offers a pleasant sight, which is perhaps due to the uniform blackness and the fact that an interesting gradation was introduced into the surface. Upstairs, in the usual place, we can insert our power supply (even a Kamariki 4), the motherboard ports are hidden in the middle, next to them is another 12 cm fan, which is the same as the one installed on the front panel. There are seven expansion card slots corresponding to the general quantity below. Here, too, the plates are uniquely and richly gridded, allowing free passage for the outgoing air. Scythe also thought of machine builders who swear by water cooling, so they created two rubber-covered outlets for the radiator pipes next to the place for the expansion cards. The side panels are simple, without any ventilation grilles or patterns, except for the silver letter "b" in the lower left corner, which obviously refers to the name Benjamin.

Internal

The interior of the FenrisWolf offers an interesting and at the same time beautiful appearance, as all surfaces are soot black, even the screws, which - the reason would be difficult to state clearly - radiates quality. The next thing that hits our eyes. the scaffolding that receives the drives, which extends from the floor to the roof, also looks the same on all floors, ie 5,25 ″.

This is almost the case, with only one of the nine levels (almost in the middle, above the Kama Bay vent) finding a 3,5 ″ mounting frame. So the question is: How are we going to install our hard drives? Well, the action will be very exciting as we can get back to our favorite childhood constructive game, the lego, in a few minutes! FenrisWolf comes with a set from which we can build any scaffolding.

The package can also be purchased separately under its honest name Scythe Hard Disk Stabilizer x4can be called. The assembly process is to take the 3,5 ″ devices you want to install (usually a hard drive), take out the two side panels of the future frame, and start screwing them to the HDDs. Once the work is done, all you have to do is screw in the adapter discs and you can push the drives into the desired location. The advantage of this method is that the mounting discs are rubberized, so they have vibration-absorbing properties, but in the extreme situation, if we also have four HDDs - this is the maximum that can be mounted in the frame - the devices get very close to each other and can heat up better. In this case, it is definitely advisable to screw the frame behind the fan, which will ventilate it a bit.

In terms of fastenings, it happens with every screw, but Scythe has shown how to do this more demanding than usual. 80% of the screws have an increased head size, ie they can be easily attached or detached by hand, and also approx. 80% are blown black (only the tiniest and barely visible ones are left out). The kit is dispensed into bags labeled by type, size and area of ​​use. At the back, the expansion cards are attached in the usual way.

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