17HDD's aka Big Fat Aluminum Case "fully loaded!"

pault123

This is class! One of my customers decided to install ALL his harddrives into one case! :eek: :beer: >>>

"As requested please find a few photos of the first run at
packing 17 HDDs into that case.

Just for interest that is made up as

5 x 300 GB in the bottom bay
5 x 300 GB in the ICY DOCK
1 x 300 GB in a floppy location
1 x 20 GB IDE in 2nd floppy location
1 x 300 GB in a 5 1/4 location
2 x 300 GB on the swing Arm
2 x 300 GB Sticky Padded to the roof of the case

The rest is an Athlon 3200 with 2GB ram, 1Gig Ethernet, an 8 port SATA interface
and an 8 port SATA Rocket RAID card"

Gib_Gib

Can I ask why he/she wants all those hard drives?

I really would not have bothered with "1 x 20 GB IDE in 2nd floppy location"

I am impressed they are all in there, what case is it?

I would have probably used a larger case, but its a good effort.

Its a mess of wires, but I am not sure you could have avoided that.

Thanks for showing us.

xio

Woah, bet thats generating some heat!

What sort of power supply is that using? :eek:

Little_John

There is no excuse for untidy cables even when using large numbers of hard drives, the only drives that are dificult to hide keep tidy would be the ones on the swing arm the rest can be tied together or ran flat against the back of the case. I have done huge mylex raid systems in the past with 20 hard drives and a cdrom, the cases were larger than that one but the company I worked for would never allow messy cables even if it took a day to get them tidy.

Alot of those drives are sata they can be routed even easier than IDE or ultra wide scsi cables and a sata cable doesnt cost anywhere near the price of a 7 head uw scsi cable did a few years back.

Tidy cases aid cooling, I have 5 250GB drives and a few 40gb system drives in a midi tower and it is as tidy as if it only had 1

Avoriaz

Congratulations.

I did not know that there was such a thing as a Chav computer.

Now I know different.

All that case needs now is some Burberry trimmings.:D

xio

Avoriaz wrote:

Congratulations.

I did not know that there was such a thing as a Chav computer.

Now I know different.

All that case needs now is some Burberry trimmings.:D

You never seen a case with cathodes/neons, el string, LED fans and uv dye in the water cooling loop then

Blacksheep1979

Can't wait for the ones that are stuck on to get hot and fall off...

pault123

Gib_Gib wrote:

Can I ask why he/she wants all those hard drives?

I really would not have bothered with "1 x 20 GB IDE in 2nd floppy location"

I am impressed they are all in there, what case is it?

I would have probably used a larger case, but its a good effort.

Its a mess of wires, but I am not sure you could have avoided that.

Thanks for showing us.

Its a silverstone Thermal. and as he stated it is a first attempt the wires will get tidyed once he's set it all up.

Its a mixture of old servers, storage drives and files after he spent a day trying to find one file he decided to dump them all into one case and refers to it as the 'hard drive dustbin'

I found it very amusing :T