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Why must hard drives fail together?
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Why must hard drives fail together?
Re: Project: Odin
So the final installment of this worklog begins with a close-up of the cable management along the bottom edge of the motherboard. Part of the reason I chose not to sleeve the USB and audio headers to match everything else was that they fit nicely in the space provided between the motherboard and backplane. The mobo came with two black SATA cables but the one without a 90 degree end wouldn't fit inside the case. Thankfully I had a spare 90 degree in red which is why one cable is sleeved and the other isn't.
The biggest issue with this case that I had was that the drive tower mounting holes would have oriented the hdd connectors away from the motherboard. In order to have the connectors close to the motherboard I had to put only one screw. Since screws only go in one side of the drive to begin with this setup is not one I'm terribly happy with.
You can see how far back the drive is in order to make this work.
With both 1.5TB Western Digital Green drives installed this project is almost complete.
The cable management situation on the back side, not a whole lot of cables as there isn't a ton of stuff in this build.
Now for some exterior glory shots of the build to finish things off.
The window and front of the case came protected by plastic so the finish was well preserved until I was done building.
I find it's odd to see a case with all of the PCI covers still in place.
I didn't want to mar the nice reflective finish on the front of the case so I put the stickers on the back.
With the stickers the build part finished and all I had to do was install Windows Home Server Vail Public Refresh (can't wait till it's just called WHS2). This turned out to be a lot harder than the build as my first install was bad. So bad in fact that I thought I was running on P2-P3 gen hardware. It could not do anything without hanging so I re-installed and now it's running well. Can't say much about using the preview until I can get the system off campus to set up Web Access as my University blocks servers on the outgoing ports.
Well, that's it. Someday I'm sure I'll redo the insides of the case, sound deaden, and paint but that won't be for a long while.
Thanks for reading,
TheMainMan
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