Woot! I got my NSC-800 and NSC-400!
Talk about a tight fit!
I did have to remove part of the NSC-800's HD back-plane Frame/PCB (no traces were cut) and grind it down as it protruded approx 5-10mm into the Motherboard area, and prevented the Scythe SCKZT-1000 low-profile heatsink from fitting. Did you have to do a similar mod to yours, Mademax?
The 40mm tall SCKZT-1000 heatsink will simply NOT fit in the NSC-400 4-Bay case. The NSC-400 must have less clearance than the NSC-800 (I'd guesstimate 30mm height opposed to 40mm height). I had to scrap my LGA775 ITX "guts" for the NSC-400 and go with a D2700 ATOM setup (only using it as a HD Test Station for Spinrite and other HD Utilities, so it's still overkill
).
PS - Directron sels the SCKZT-1000 for less than $30!!!:
http://www.directron.com/sckzt1000.html
I did find one other Heatsink that is less than 30mm tall - but it is only for 1156/1155 systems - maybe next year I'll upgrade the NSC-800's MoBo/CPU
http://www.mini-box.com/Low-Profile-LGA1155-Intel-Core-i3-i5-i7-CPU-Cooler?sc=8&category=1178
I still have to get everything sorted and make sure I can get the Areca ARC-1220 card in the NSC-800, but I believe I will be fine. The "LEDs" on the HD Bays are actually a Fiber Optic cable that links to the backplane - and the backplane contains the actual LED's on the PCB (where all of the HD's plug into). I was perplexed at first as I could not see how the HD Bays' LED's would light up otherwise, and there weren't any LED Headers to interface with a RAID card, etc
Seems like a killer little case, but could use an extra 10mm or so of clearance for heatsink concerns, and creating an actual slot for the PCIe RAID card would seem feasible with a slight dimension expansion as well (opposed to using the PCIe extension cable).
I'm happy overall - Now maybe we will start seeing these trickle in via official USA importers/re-sellers? Or more likely to see complete NAS solutions offered in these very cases