Dusty much..?

[Ty Ty]

Reshelled my computer from my old Thermaltake Armor into a new Corsair 650D.

Lookie what I found when I pulled the radiator off the back of the old case..

Ha!

The old case. (old picture from log ago...I've had the case for several computer builds)

New case

Hurray for cable management.

 

[2point5RS_Dan]

Nice setup. I'll have to take a picture of the inside of one of the 200 desktops at work.... I'll try and find a good one that's sat on the floor for a few years

 

[Mighty Subie]

Looks great. I haven't built a computer since 2005! But its fun. And cable management like that looks awesome! Must be a huge case. I can't tell on my cell.

 

[02 WRX Chris]

Wow, I wish my computer looked like that! I have cables all over the place!

 

[Chris]

Wow, I wish my computer looked like that! I have cables all over the place!

Post it anyway! I bet mine is worse....

 

[Ty Ty]

Oh the humanity!

 

[Chris]

Oh it's fabulous! I have a bunch of extra connectors soldered on from old broken power supplies. Because my mobo needs two molex connectors, gpu needs two, I have five hard drives, two CD drives, a floppy, bunch of fans.... etc. It's a nasty beautiful mess. It's a lot better than my old machine with 9 84-pin SCSI drives... Maybe I can find a pic somewhere of that.

 

[02 WRX Chris]

There it is....in all of its glory!

 

[Chris]

I win, mine is messier.

 

[Ty Ty]

Well, the built in fan controller died after only a day, and I was forced to pull the controller out of my old case..

I ordered a new case already, because this one has pissed me off too much.

Mmmm...special edition graphite white...

 

[Chris]

Why? That black case looks pretty nice. Looks like it has a lot of hard drive bays. I should have mentioned, I have 4 drives on eSATA because I don't have enough room in the case...

 

[Ty Ty]

I'm not running a damn storage server out of the thing..

Why on earth do you need so many HDs?

 

[Chris]

Well, one miniDV tape = 13GB.

I have about 40 of those from my family's travels.

Same goes for thousands of uncompressed photos.

Plus space for all the media after it's processed, etc.

I have tons of music, do a lot of computer work. So I have disc images of all sorts of different operating systems, virtual systems, and whatnot.

Then backup from my email/firewall server.

It all comes out to many TB of crap.

 

[Ty Ty]

Perhaps it may be time for a standalone storage array mate.

 

[Ty Ty]

If I really wanted to have a standalone machine for storage, I would probably use this one and swap out the drives I have in it for 3tb drives.

 

[Chris]

I run debian linux on all my stuff. Have been for years.

I don't want to run a standalone. It's easier to just have everything on the same machine. It takes up more room and power, etc. I have a gigantic 5U server box I could use if I wanted to...

 

[inski]

Lookin good you GEEKS!

I'll snap a pic of my internet blazer my son built for me once the sun hits this room again...