avoiding work, took pictures
a note that the door hardware absolutly sucked. it came with a lock and key, but one day I went to open the door, turned the key to unlock the door, took the key out and the lock mechanism came out with it. I was.. surprised.
with an piece of an old toy, a dremel, a hot glue gun and an xacto knife I made the knob seen above (and below).
my sony extermal dvd-rw drive sits on top, you can see it peeking out. its just got a standard cd-rom in it. oh, and my dratini card usually hang out on my keyboard, but it wanted to be in the picture. coke cans are for scale = P
behind the bottom drive cover is an 120 gig seagate sitting in a former zip drive holder. keeps it off the case which vibrates pretty good
6 hot swap 10k drives upfront. one drive thinks its dead. I think its wrong, but have yet come up with a good way to convince it otherwise
a first look at the inside. case actually opens up easier most standard desktop cases, completely tool-less.. ofcourse, this is not a standard desktop.. but yeah
The case is basically a wind tunnel. only two fans, this one is mounted against the 6 hot swap drives and pulls air between the hdds, through the front of the case, and then blows it over.. well, everything. most importantly the twin P3s.
The two processors with rather large, passive heatsinks... along with the rear fan, ram, sound card, extra network card, some of the motherboard, and a small corner of the massive raid card.
The motherboard also has a little read-out on it. I forgot to get a picture of it, but here's the list anyways. Basically it works like the check-engine light in a car. An orange "( ! )" lights up on the front display, you open up the case and this little dispay will tell you exactly what the problem is. It has little lights embedded in the motherboard beside every exchangable part (all the ram, pci slots, etc) which will come on and let you know what needs replacing
so yeah. my box.
*shrug*
she's turning 7 years old in a few months. I wonder how expensive it is to put LightPath on a motherboard, 'cause that is some spiffy stuff, and I've never seen it on consumer stuff
