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After being inspired by mashie's Project uDat, I decided I had to make my own version! I started with many of the same parts as mashie and here is a log of my work so far!
Objectives:
-Small form factor
-Gigabytes a plenty
-Sleek appearance
Status: Mods Completed, Awaiting Further Hardware Purchase
This is where I started, this is the initial coat of black paint on the custom Aluminum 6061-T6 face plate:
Here is my custom front panel after being cut from some Aluminum 6061-T6 1mm sheet. I have spent many hours honing this thing to fit quite nicely as it does now. Being that I'm not the dremel master I could only hope to be, it took me much longer than it probably should have. No matter, it is done now. I am following linear's painting guide and will give it a sanding with 600 grit and apply the second color coat later tonight.
After a bit of cutting and grinding the Morex Venus this is what I am left with. The AMS hotswap bay that I picked up from directron has a bunch of activity LED's that will look pretty sweet I think.
I have a key on/off switch for the computer and you can see the cutout in the frame for it. I plan to epoxy the finished aluminum front to the plastic piece you see here.
Inside side view
Inside top view
Back view of the hotswap device, that little fan pushes quite a bit of air but is very noisy, until I get the drives I wont really know if all that is necessary. I hope not because it will add a ton of noise. Very nice little drive bay, you get what you pay for I guess ($$$).
Front in all its glory
So thats all for now, I am getting a Shuttle SB52G2 basically it is a socket 478 board for basic server stuff like this. One neat feature is 2 Lan jacks one is gigabit too
Not sure what cpu im gonna get yet but i want it to be not to hot, i was thinking a celeron. I plan to get 512 megs of ram.
I still need to get a Raidcore 4852, I plan to do the same Raid 5 setup mashie did, however I think I'm going to do it with 5x250gb sata drives so I have a full terabyte
Thats all for now...
(edit: image host changed & status added)
Objectives:
-Small form factor
-Gigabytes a plenty
-Sleek appearance
Status: Mods Completed, Awaiting Further Hardware Purchase
This is where I started, this is the initial coat of black paint on the custom Aluminum 6061-T6 face plate:
Here is my custom front panel after being cut from some Aluminum 6061-T6 1mm sheet. I have spent many hours honing this thing to fit quite nicely as it does now. Being that I'm not the dremel master I could only hope to be, it took me much longer than it probably should have. No matter, it is done now. I am following linear's painting guide and will give it a sanding with 600 grit and apply the second color coat later tonight.
After a bit of cutting and grinding the Morex Venus this is what I am left with. The AMS hotswap bay that I picked up from directron has a bunch of activity LED's that will look pretty sweet I think.
I have a key on/off switch for the computer and you can see the cutout in the frame for it. I plan to epoxy the finished aluminum front to the plastic piece you see here.
Inside side view
Inside top view
Back view of the hotswap device, that little fan pushes quite a bit of air but is very noisy, until I get the drives I wont really know if all that is necessary. I hope not because it will add a ton of noise. Very nice little drive bay, you get what you pay for I guess ($$$).
Front in all its glory
So thats all for now, I am getting a Shuttle SB52G2 basically it is a socket 478 board for basic server stuff like this. One neat feature is 2 Lan jacks one is gigabit too
Not sure what cpu im gonna get yet but i want it to be not to hot, i was thinking a celeron. I plan to get 512 megs of ram.I still need to get a Raidcore 4852, I plan to do the same Raid 5 setup mashie did, however I think I'm going to do it with 5x250gb sata drives so I have a full terabyte
Thats all for now...
(edit: image host changed & status added)
