Need help cleaning up my case *warning, it is a mess*

[arcitech2]

CaseDepot has a 145.00 server case. C5690B has all your drives on one side, and your MB on the other side. With good cable routing, you should have a clean arrangement, and not have to buy new drives. If it was mine, there would be 2 choices:

1. Save up, and build another computer with all the drives you have, it wouldn't be hard.

2. Take advice from these posts, and get 3 large drives, and sell what you don't need/use.


If there are files that you haven't used in 6 months, dump them. If you are sharing lots of files, choice #1 will allow you to have a file server that you can keep out of sight, while enjoying your display PC. Choice #2 is the smart choice, in the long run. Beg, borrow or trade until you get an upgrade that you like.

PS-That is one FULL case!

 

[GAZZA]

One simple and great mod for tidying up cables/wires especially for you hard drive is to mount the drive backwards so that there are no wires showing at the rear of the drives but instead are towards the front of the case, obviously you need to have decent length ide cables to be able to manage this.
This was mentioned over at OC Forums, I'd link to the post but can't find it just yet.

 

[GAZZA]

PS I also have 5 hard drives and 2 optical drives and cleaned mine up using UVFLEXO PET Expandable sleeving from SVC.COM.
Here is a quick shot of mine completed Here

 

[Spac3d]

Sorry I didn't reply guys, someone cut the cable line going to my house, so I was without internet for a damn week:|

Originally posted by: GAZZA
PS I also have 5 hard drives and 2 optical drives and cleaned mine up using UVFLEXO PET Expandable sleeving from SVC.COM.
Here is a quick shot of mine completed Here

That is hot! I like the way it looks.

Sorry to mention this, but I just bought another 120gb harddrive, so now I have 10 drives.

I don't know where I am going to mount this hehe... that puts me at 700gb now, but the 60gb drive is dying...

I was thinking if I could get this other damn machine working (my aunt made this Xeon machine FUBAR), I could stuff that one full of drive too then run a 1000mbit patch cable between giganic cards. Hrmm...

 

[wetcat007]

Can any one see a horrid need for Serial ATA?

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Whats your budget? Knowing that, I can maybe help a little better.

 

[wetcat007]

Originally posted by: Spac3d
Sorry I didn't reply guys, someone cut the cable line going to my house, so I was without internet for a damn week:|

Originally posted by: GAZZA
PS I also have 5 hard drives and 2 optical drives and cleaned mine up using UVFLEXO PET Expandable sleeving from SVC.COM.
Here is a quick shot of mine completed Here

That is hot! I like the way it looks.

Sorry to mention this, but I just bought another 120gb harddrive, so now I have 10 drives.

I don't know where I am going to mount this hehe... that puts me at 700gb now, but the 60gb drive is dying...

I was thinking if I could get this other damn machine working (my aunt made this Xeon machine FUBAR), I could stuff that one full of drive too then run a 1000mbit patch cable between giganic cards. Hrmm...

Alright, here's a bit of an idea, get a Cheap, but decent full Tower case, load all the drives into that one, use an old motherboard/cpu, and hook up all ur hd's to that, then put in a 1000mbs (or10,000 if ur REALLY woried bout speed) lan card, and have it run as a server like computer, and only keep ur biggest 1 or 2 hd's in ur current case, for local stuff and the OS and so on. Then get a 1000mbs lan card for ur current comp as well, have em both on the same network, simply share all the hd's on linux or windows, and map them each as a network drive to your current computer.

This could cost a bit more if u dont got any old motherboards/cpu/ram laying around, but u can find some pretty cheap stuff that'll be more than fast enough for this, and it would be MUCH more practical than having them all in ur main case.

-Mark