small pictures are small!!!!

Also, is that an alpha heatsink I see? Those things are AWESOME.

Very nice setup! I wouldnt do wireless but thats just me. ( i HATE wireless)

Thanks! Yes, it is an alpha heatsink w/ some replacement fans. Know what you mean about wireless, I more-or-less did as an intellectual challenge getting wifi to work with Me.

I've got an I4 megaraid in my p-pro machine. Not a bad ide raid card..... mind you, I wouldn't be using old IBM deskstars in raid-0.... that's itching for trouble. A single modern drive would be a better bet for performance and less likely to fail - if your card is the same as mine it should support up to 200gb individual drives. I ran a raid-5 of 4x 200gb drives in Linux as my main file store maybe 7-8 years ago with one of them.

I have the same IDE raid card as well. It was stupid cheap on ebay if I remember right. Truth be told, what I "wish" to do is get 8x 20gb of the old quantum bigfoot drives. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Bigfoot_ … 28hard_drive%29

I just like those drives and I DONT KNOW WHY.

Have you had good luck with them? I worked in a hospital back in the late 90's and we could COUNT on those bigfoots failing in the Compaqs that we had...we were so confident in their ability to eventually fail that we "enouraged" them before the warranty went out by letting it spin up and hitting it with a hammer.

I didn't plan to do RAID 0 with that card and those drives, but it worked out that way when I set it up. I may change it eventually, now that I have the system basic and situated. I can back it up and re-do it properly. I think the card was $6 or so.

I thought about getting another card and using 4 CompacFlash adapters with 8 microdrives just for grins.

I like everything on that build! What psu are you using to power this beast? And what case, some front shots would be appreciated very much.

Nice setup for sure, I like it!

MOAR PICS, wanna see what case also. =]

Here's the front shot. Just a generic case, note the trademark infringement Windows logo made from the little vent perforations at the bottom. 😀 The PSU is just some generic 250-watt that came with the case...it's one of those captive ones, you won't slide it out without removing the CD-ROM first!

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We like to see all cases, even if they're generic. 😉 Did you replace the bottom 5.25" and 3.5" covers? If they came with the case, it's interesting how only those two sections yellowed.. and it's interesting how different plastics and flame retardants react to light.

I didn't replace them, I more-or-less got it that way, so no telling what a PO did. I replaced a 32x CD w/ the 56x, though. I've a nice slot-loading IDE CD-Rom, but it's only 16x...may switch to it anyway, though, just for uniqueness.