October 5, 200718 yr Author ha! I know! Usually when people post pictures the inside of the case looks like an engineering schematic. I've never built a PC that neat. I just dont know how people pull it off. Mine are always sloppy.
October 5, 200718 yr haha, indeed. I'll post some pictures of mine: Still a work in progress, but messy as hell. I even managed to screw up bad enough in my choices that I can't even close the case: I'm THAT awesome.
October 5, 200718 yr Author Not that i need more space at the moment but man, i think that if i take out that top plate in the "stacker" case that i could get a 4th drive cage in there to get my max capacity to 16... I'd just have to figuer out where to put the power switch.
October 5, 200718 yr Very nice!! Yours is organized as good or better than most of us, definitely a little neater than mine. It's the 4 wire power connector spaghetti that seems the hardest to manage, especially with added fans.
October 6, 200718 yr Not that i need more space at the moment but man, i think that if i take out that top plate in the "stacker" case that i could get a 4th drive cage in there to get my max capacity to 16... I'd just have to figuer out where to put the power switch. Good job! Yes, you can easily remove the top multi-function module and use the slot for other purposes. Turns out, you don't really need a power switch - if you want to power down, you can do it via the System Management Utility. To turn it back on, just turn the power supply off then back on again via it's switch.
October 6, 200718 yr Not that i need more space at the moment but man, i think that if i take out that top plate in the "stacker" case that i could get a 4th drive cage in there to get my max capacity to 16... I'd just have to figuer out where to put the power switch. Good job! Yes, you can easily remove the top multi-function module and use the slot for other purposes. Turns out, you don't really need a power switch - if you want to power down, you can do it via the System Management Utility. To turn it back on, just turn the power supply off then back on again via it's switch. As long as you set the auto-boot on power-up option in the bios, this works well. Make sure you set it before you remove the button.
October 7, 200718 yr Not that i need more space at the moment but man, i think that if i take out that top plate in the "stacker" case that i could get a 4th drive cage in there to get my max capacity to 16... I'd just have to figuer out where to put the power switch. Good job! Yes, you can easily remove the top multi-function module and use the slot for other purposes. Turns out, you don't really need a power switch - if you want to power down, you can do it via the System Management Utility. To turn it back on, just turn the power supply off then back on again via it's switch. As long as you set the auto-boot on power-up option in the bios, this works well. Make sure you set it before you remove the button. I learned this the hard way 2 years ago
October 10, 200718 yr My array is up and running: How did you manage to get your unraid array to A) show up as one 2.57TB network drive and B) Format as NTFS? Please excuse my ignorance, but I thought each drive showed up separately?
October 10, 200718 yr that's the SAMBA share making it show as NTFS, also, with the new writable user shares, I've noticed that you get the "disk size" of your entire array, not just the share or an individual drive. I would like to add that I'd prefer it show the size of the individual share for quick reference rather than the entire array
October 10, 200718 yr Author Yeah what cmhardwick said... If you wanted to make all 16 drives be accessable as one big fat drive a single usershare would do the trick. Works great too.
October 10, 200718 yr Yeah what cmhardwick said... If you wanted to make all 16 drives be accessable as one big fat drive a single usershare would do the trick. Works great too. Wow. That sounds ideal. Now when you say accessible as one fat drive, do you mean read-only, or can you write to it as one fat drive as well? If you can write as well how does it allocate? fill up the first drive and then move on to the next available or does it round-robin?
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