IDversusEGO
Supreme [H]ardness
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- Oct 30, 2003
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Recently I decided to seperate my movie file server from my TV and music server. I had tons of matching smaller hard drives laying around and wanted to put them to use. I can't afford a Stacker right now and I happened to have a full tower sitting in a corner from years ago. so here we are in mod town. The challenge is to fit 11 hard drives and as many DVD roms as I can (for movie ripping).
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Here is the case as stripped down as I could get it without a dremel...
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/idvsego/server%20project/th_IMG_2345.jpg)
here is PS-RagE's idea for mounting the hard drives that I stole. works well. Just some shelving brackets from home depot. $2.95 for 6 feet.
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/idvsego/server%20project/th_IMG_2347.jpg)
here is the new lower HDD mount being test fit for height. it need to be ground down a little. it's a little wobbly. also I am still waiting on another RMA from WD, that's why there is a gap in the drives.
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/idvsego/server%20project/th_IMG_2353.jpg)
next up is trying to decide on cooling for the HDDs and finding a way to make the lower drives stable.
CLICK IMAGES FOR SLIGHTLY LARGER IMAGE
Here is the case as stripped down as I could get it without a dremel...
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/idvsego/server%20project/th_IMG_2344.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/idvsego/server%20project/th_IMG_2345.jpg)
here is PS-RagE's idea for mounting the hard drives that I stole. works well. Just some shelving brackets from home depot. $2.95 for 6 feet.
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/idvsego/server%20project/th_IMG_2348.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/idvsego/server%20project/th_IMG_2347.jpg)
here is the new lower HDD mount being test fit for height. it need to be ground down a little. it's a little wobbly. also I am still waiting on another RMA from WD, that's why there is a gap in the drives.
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/idvsego/server%20project/th_IMG_2350.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/idvsego/server%20project/th_IMG_2352.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/idvsego/server%20project/th_IMG_2353.jpg)
next up is trying to decide on cooling for the HDDs and finding a way to make the lower drives stable.