How Senility Works

[PackRat]

Back a week or two ago. I introduced myself to this forum. At that time I was getting ready to swap over my hard drives and set up a RAID drive setup in my puter. Four shiney new WD Caviar 160 GB SATA-300 drives crammed into a generic MIC case (thats made in China btw) with with a 20 gig segate and an 80 gig wd. The operating system is sucesfuly transferd. The old drives have been changed to show up as P & Q drives respectivly. The system is booting fine from the new drives *** or so i thought***.

This is the story so far.

Oh well I needed to clean up how my drives are set up anyway. Ok so the next step is to take out the old drives. Man this is a pain in the ass the motherbord power plug is blocking three drive bays. Eaven with the old drives out i'm gonna have to put two of the new drives right next to each other.
Time to get to it. Take out the memory, unplug the mobo & drives, take out the vid card now i can get the frackin drives out. Ya know my mobo shure has been running a good bit hotter than my cpu. I wonder if a shield to keep the cpu fan from blowing hot air directly on the mobo heat sink would help. How can they build crap like this, i can't believe they put the drive bays so close to the frackin motherboard. Screw symetry the bloody things should have been mounted up here. Hmmmm. All i would have to do is take the drive bays racks loose and mount them up higher. Man i hate this dust. Wonder if i could mount a filter on this bitch somehow. If i had a filter i could build a duct for the cpu fan, then with the heat shield all the air from the cpu would blow directly towards the antec. That would be sweet, that fan is 120 mm if it's an inch. Woah if i did that with the drive bays moved, then there'd be room to duct air to the mobo heat sink and the vid card fan. Wonder if my drill is out in the shed ?


Pictures coming soon..................

[gvblake22]

Hmmm, so you seemed to have raised a lot of questions so far. What's your next step? I think you've got the first symptoms of case modding. Grab yourself a dremel and cut that mutt up!!!
(definitely want to see some pics though)

[PackRat]

Got the old drive bay out and cut down for the floppy & 1 extra 4" wide whatever. It's back in. Also have the new hinged hard drive bay built and am working on the support structure. this is my last night of work this week, so i will post the first pics this weekend. ......

[PackRat]

Yea i know it's monday but my weekend doesn't end till 5:20 pm EST today, so it's still my weekend. Here are the first pics. Not a lot to see im still waiting on the sheet metal to be done. I am rather pleased with the hinged drive bay, and thats some of the support pieces for it on top of the case.

[One4yu2c]

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[gvblake22]

Interesting, you don't see too many hinged HDD cages around. Looking forward to seeing this thing in action though... Keep it up!

[PackRat]

Sorry One4 thought i was putting up clickable thumbnails, won't happen again.

gv if it works out as planned the bay should swing out 90 deg. with the power and data cables attached.............rats no cross your fingers smiley.............

Posted new pics showing the drive bay mounted in the case. Now it's time to take it back out & get the ducts built and mounted.

*gv............... mabey this thread belongs in mods & ends........

[gvblake22]

Originally Posted by PackRat

*gv............... mabey this thread belongs in mods & ends........

AAAHHHH, yes, it most definitely does. I didn't even realize it wasn't!

[PackRat]

gv...... the new pics are in post #4. Took out the other pics & replaced with clickable thumbnails of the new pics. wadda ya think of the mount ?

[gvblake22]

Looks like it would work well without blocking too much airflow from the front fans. The fact that it swings out eliminates the mounting problems with a motherboard installed. About the only thing left lingering in my mind is how you are actually going to secure it in there so it is strong and stable?