Case Mod - In Progress Project: Huge NAS (Fractal Design Define R3) - Update 03/06/2011

good to hear

 

When you embed your image, use "embed this image" instead of "embed thumbnail." Like this:

Good you got the rivet sorted!

 

I embed the thumbnail to make sure the picture doesn't go down because of excessive bandwidth usage. People are free to click the thumbnail if curious.
I thought that was a decent way to do it, although traffic probably isn't very high.

 

My sleeve is too far back, I won't fix it here but the 24pin will be neater.

 

Nice mouse. I love the sleeving colours- great choice!

 

Thanks, I thought it'd go well with the motherboard
The mouse is a Roccat Kone by the way. Not sure they still make this since they released the Kone +

 

I got myself a bit of an "interesting" HSF to change from the boring intel one.

I give you the Xigmatek Apache EP-CD90

It's got terrible reviews, barely able to better a stock intel HSF, but I liked its looks and figured it would have no problem keeping the 35W TDP i3-2100T cool.
But it had to be modded a little

Disassembly and masking:



Painted:


Reassembled with the fan cable shortened and sleeved:



Hope you like it

 

The painted Apache looks great! Good to see someone paying so much attention to a NAS

 

Thanks Jipa
Let's just say it makes for great practice for future projects

Oh, did I mention I received 24TB yesterday?









I guess I forgot

 

That must have been one decently hefty shipment!

I remember when I got my 8 hard drives for my current server... they shipped each hard drive individually...

It's looking good! Can't wait to see the progress

 

Awesome! Great attention to detail with the HSF. And the shipment- may I think of you as a torrent whore?

 

24TB? I assume this means a RAID card is going to make an appearance at some point? The onboard ones tend to be a bit... s***.

 

Well, two of he drives were marked "Hotspare" so I would assume a 10 disc RAID5 or RAID6, so the actual space would be closer to 14.5-16.25TB but either way, that's a fair amount of space...


I'm interested in seeing what you go with for a RAID card, I'll be rebuilding my server next, and am looking for a solid RAID card... I love my current 3ware....

 

I'll be using my Areca 1230
As for the raid, I was first gonna do raid 5 + 2x hotspares, but was talked into going raid 6, so it'll be raid 6 + 1 hotspare.

 

Thanks for posting the link to ADP-4100 adapter, +rep

 

No problem
The price from these guys will probably be a shocker though (I think they were asking something like $25 back when I asked them). I'd try and find them or equivalents somewhere else.

 

As I think I explained before, I'm wiring those 8 drives with thicker wires, so I've had to resort to the following technique for the wire to fit inside the passthrough connectors. I removed the insulator where it slides into the groove and used heatshrink over the exposed wire. This way the short sleeve bits are held firmly in place and I won't have to be relying solely on the cap to hold everything in place.



The precut sleeve was a little short for the job so I cut some 21mm lengths instead.



The extra cage plonked into position






That's all for today

 

Love the cable job on the back there, I am currently trying to get hold of some hot swap internal connectors for my upcoming build.

cables look so much cleaner this way.

 

I won't be able to work on this for the next 10 days or so.




As usual, click for high res

Next step will be cutting off a bit more of my motherboard tray as feeding the cables through is a little tight for my liking.

 

Really nice project
I especially like the wireing to the harddrives though why are there 2 Sata ports on each board when it's only one disk connected to it?