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So I had my girlfriend pick out a case

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I bet, I've driven through Chapel Hill before. About 5 years ago. Looked pretty nice. For whatever reason South Central LA was getting over crowded so it expanded into Phoenix, AZ. It's a shame. I remember in the mid-late 70s and the roads were about as busy at rush hour then as they are at 2-3am on a weekday now.
 
Originally posted by: aigomorla
lol seems like no girls give a big sized case any love.
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Mmmmm, I shouldn't comment... 😱

It's all about what one needs for a computer case. For my main rig, I wanted it really quiet, so I got a Solo. For my gaming rig, I wanted it portable, so I got an X-Qpack2. Both only have 2 HDDs.
 
Originally posted by: Zap
Originally posted by: aigomorla
lol seems like no girls give a big sized case any love.
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Mmmmm, I shouldn't comment... 😱

It's all about what one needs for a computer case. For my main rig, I wanted it really quiet, so I got a Solo. For my gaming rig, I wanted it portable, so I got an X-Qpack2. Both only have 2 HDDs.
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rawr, cases are too small.

I need my h2o gear internally. 😀
 
I remember someone taking a shuttle XPC with an add-in video card and making it watercooled. You don't need tons of space to make a good WC rig, it does make it more difficult, though.
 
That depends on your definition of a good WC rig. Dual DDCs or an RD30 with a pa120.3 will never fit in a small mid-tower, let alone a SFF.
 
Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
*Whistles*

Yes it is.. I took that pic just for you aigomorla. There's going to be more stuff done to it, hopefully this weekend.
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Why would you put a miniITX inside a mid tower 😕? Oh wait...that's a microATX inside a monstrous full tower. Again - why?
 
Originally posted by: aigomorla

BAM! what did i tell you?

ROFL!!!
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Oh by spacey I mean they look like something from outer space. But the other works too because they do have decent room inside compared to a P180, for example.

 
Originally posted by: Jax Omen
Man this is a crazy derailed topic. I love you guys.
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actually its not.

It still has the theme, girls and cases.

Of course most of it is stereotype, thats why the girls are here filling in the blank spots.
 
lol, fair enough.

So Kitty thinks her 900 will look really good next to my Zero. Let's get the girl's opinions on that!
 
My girlfriend got a matching Thermaltake Armor, it's a beast of a case!
Course, anytime it has to be moved, she calls me!
 
No kidding. That enlight server case I mentioned earlier was so heavy I could barely even pick it up (mostly that was from the 10 SCSI drives and the case itself). I don't know what I would have done if it hadn't have come with caster wheels on it.
My old workstation showing the case
 
Originally posted by: jaqie
No kidding. That enlight server case I mentioned earlier was so heavy I could barely even pick it up (mostly that was from the 10 SCSI drives and the case itself). I don't know what I would have done if it hadn't have come with caster wheels on it.
My old workstation showing the case
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You know I really think hard drives are capable of sidestepping the laws of physics when it comes to weight. I mean 10 hard drives should way what 10 pounds? Yet when you put 10 hard drives in a case it's got to be 50 pounds heavier. Kind of like the cameras in the broadcast studios...

Hmmmm

:laugh:
 
Originally posted by: Rubycon
You know I really think hard drives are capable of sidestepping the laws of physics when it comes to weight. I mean 10 hard drives should way what 10 pounds?
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I think you mean "weigh", right? (just trying to help, honestly.)
Actually old SCSI drives were quite heavy. The ones I used weren't the older 5.25" full height (almost as tall as they were wide) drives that weighed more then a cinderblock back in the day. If I recall correctly, there were even some micropolis SCSI drives that were 3.5" half-height (modern drive height times 1.5) that weighed almost ten pounds each. The drives I used in that setup (which was around four or five years ago and they were older drives, to put things in perspective) were around 5 pounds each.

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The case was also 42 pounds empty as seen here.
 
Yes way - weigh but when said sound the same. 😛

No I'm talking common 3.5" drives. We have a charting system with an ancient Micropolis ESDI 5.25" FULL HEIGHT drive (one is 77MB the other 370MB and yes M not G!) from 1993. Those are BEASTS. I have one that I want to take apart for the magnets. :Q

In the case of my Stacker 830 it's very front heavy due to the hard drive arrangement and it feels much heavier than 10 drives would suggest!

Steel Addonics and SuperMicro cases with redundant power supplies are quite heavy when empty. A 24 drive 4U would definitely play the test on the bearings on the roll out rack rails for sure. :Q
 
Yes, I used to own a 10MB 5.25" full height SCSI drive, what a brick. Though my favorite drive ever will always be the ST225 20MB MFM drive, it whistled as it worked 😉 or maybe my fav drive was my old quantum ProDrive LPS 52MB IDE. I used that thing as a DOS drive all the way through until 1999.
Yeah, the enlight case I showed and talked about had a triple redundant 600W supply, IIRC.
 
I had an Everex Step 20 (386-20) with a 40MB Seagate MFM drive that sounded like it was grinding coffee beans. 1MB DOS 3.3 w/Win 3.1. :Q

The Seagate RLL drives had an actuator that reminded me of a slinky getting bounced around in a bathtub. (don't ask!)
 
They were older used drives (seagate barracuda 19GB 7200RPM). I was experimenting with high end hardware RAID. It was disappointing because I had to use two seperate SCSI channels to get all ten drives, and my PM2865U3 (the card that ADAPTEC inhereted with a company buyout and renamed the 3200s) just wasn't up to the task of XORing a 10 disc raid50 array, even with 128MB cache on the card (two 64MB PC66 SODIMMs).
 
As a former DPT Millennium (128GB) and 10 disk Cheetah 18GB owner I feel your pain. We've come a long way since then. When 256GB SAS SSD drives are under $500 things will be even better. 😉
 
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