layout: post title: “NZXT H1 Recall hits home” date: 2021-2-15 9:00:00 -0800 categories: hardware —

DevBox / Server down!

The Consumer Safety Product Commission’s NZXT H1 safety recall hit home this weekend. While I’ve been aware of the early reports of fire risk and subsequent reporting, I had taken a “what are the odds it really happens to me?” approach. But with all the new publicity and reporting, I felt I shouldn’t keep rolling the dice on a potentially damaging fire. I unplugged my sturdy little home server / DevBox and filled out the form on the NZXT website to request replacement riser parts.

The good news is I recieved a reply quickly - and over the weekend - that a shipping order had been entered to send out a nylon screw to replace the metal one currently in use in riser card. This is a stop-gap fix until they can fabricate and dispatch replacement risers that don’t have the root cause issue of the PCB ground plane being exposed by the screw hole.

I urge anyone else with the NXZT H1 case to just shut it off, unplug the machine, and file for the repair parts as well.

I really like the form factor - it allows it to be out of the way on the far corner of my desk, and it’s run 24/7 since I built the machine back in August 2019. For me, it’s a home media server running Plex as well as my own personal Linux Dev machine. But none of that is critical day-to-day - so I’ll survive just fine.