Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 23:26:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Noses <noses@noses.com> To: hardware@freebsd.org, brooks@one-eyed-alien.net (Brooks Davis) Subject: Re: Casing wanted Message-ID: <200106062126.f56LQ4U25867@proxon.bnc.net> In-Reply-To: <20010606100749.A5681@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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In article <20010606100749.A5681@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> brooks@one-eyed-alien.net (Brooks Davis) wrote: > The PC Power & Cooling Solid Steel Tower has 10 bays, 8 external. > If you pick up one of their 500W or redundent 420W power supplies > and a couple of drive Y-s you should be able to connect everything. Not quite; I've spent a few minutes with paper and pencil and the experience of putting my head into a number of casings and my first guess is six drives connected. > You'll also have to buy mounting kits for all the drives as well since > all the bays are are 5.25". I haven't used those systems, but I own > one of the mid towers and I'm quite happy with it. It's really solid > with no rough edges or anything. Someone else also recommended these; they seem to be well worth the money spent on them and I'll probably take one for the twin machine (which will have - I'm mean 8-) a SCSI controller and disks for comparison just to see if it got enough cooling for 10000 rpm IBM egg frying equipment. Noses. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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