DarthBeavis Project: Holocron (Windows Home Server build)

[DarthBeavis]

Specs:
Intel i5 655 processor
ASUS P7P55 LX motherboard (used because it has 3 PCI slots for the 3 eight-port raid cards)
4-8 gigs of Crucial Ballistix Tracer ram
25 two terabyte hard drives
Custom-painted Danger Den Double-wide tower by www.stevenunez.com
Silverstone Zeus 1200 M PSU
GPU . . .not sure yet.
Danger Den H20 of course
Color scheme: Inside all white - white tubing, sleeving, coolant.

Case pics:
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[DarthBeavis]

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[DarthBeavis]

20 of the 2 terabyte Western Digital HDDS installed
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[DarthBeavis]

That...is awesome and beauteous.. OOC, how are you gonna be controlling all those drives?


Three of these: Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 PCI-X
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[DarthBeavis]

getting pump ready . . .will sleeve in white of course
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[DarthBeavis]

This project is finished
Final pix and specs:
CPU: Intel SandyBridge 2500k
Mobo: ASUS P67 Sabertooth
RAM: 8 gigs of Crucial Ballistix Smart Tracer – pattern and color can be changed via software
GFX: two NVIDIA Geforce 580s in SLI
PSU: Silverstone Zeus 1200m – some of the cables I sleeved and some are extensions from Frozen CPU
Cooling: Danger Den watercooling including their new Monsoon Resevoir
Case: Danger Den Double Wide Tower 21 – custom
Other: 25 two terabyte Western Digital hard drives, three Areca raid cards


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Link To Original Worklog (http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24024)