Solid Acrylic 2 Tear Server Idea

[shnubfish]

I have an idea to do a mod using 1/4 inch acrylic sheets. It's going to have 2 PSUs and 5 hard drives. The only thing I need is the acrylic, a PCI SATA controller card and the mobo/cpu/ram (I have the drives and PSUs). I'm going to make them where they can fit together easily. I also want to make acrylic doors on hinges for easy access to all of the parts. I attached a crappy mspaint image below to show a rough idea of how I plan to do it. I'm going to use screws and epoxy resin to put the pieces together. If anyone has any ideas or input, please shoot them my way.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/OtisTheTerrible/CaseDrawing.jpg

I'll probably add some neon later. I already have a cheap board/cpu/onboard vga combo picked out:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813138241

Add about $35 for 512MB of RAM and I'm all set to go. You may have noticed that I excluded a CDROM in this package...but I plan to just install the OS from a CDROM drive and then unhook it permanently.

So what do you think? Good idea, bad idea? :p

[SpYdeRmoN]

i think this is something similar.. hope it helps!
:)

http://www.mashie.org/casemods/udat1.html

[sXenoG]

Ive done what you said ur doing with the rom. I had not too many issues I ended up sharring the drive of my other computer over the network that way I could install things etc using my other computer. It lasted till i had a craving for star craft and couldnt get the no-cd hack to work (about 6 months it took me b4 putting the rom in my case).

Personally The only acrylic case I like is the orac3 I think acyrlic cases are probably the hardest thing to make look good.

[Vexxx_2007]

Sounds interesting... But before you buy any memory for this thing, I have a 1gb DDR PC 2100/2700/3200(one of those?) chip that i've never used, still in the box and plastic and whatnot, and if you want, i'll hook you up. unless you're using DDR2, which i'm assuming. If you're using a slightly aged M/b that uses DDR memory, holler at me :) i took a quick glance at the linky to the board you have and i tihnk it MIGHT be compatible