Let's Play a Game: Where Does This Go

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-05-23 03:34am

THE CASE

THE DRIVE RACK

THE CHALLENGE:

Where the FUCK does this thing GO?!

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-05-23 03:35am

Isn't there a drive rack already in the case?

aphexmonster · Post by **aphexmonster** » 2003-05-23 03:36am

It looks like the cage that holds the mother board/video card/ modem. Or an extra cage that holds your drives

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-05-23 03:37am

I already said it's the HDD cage. I don't currently see one in the case right now.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-05-23 03:40am

Oh, okay. When you said Drive Rack, I thought you meant for for the disk drives.

Well, why don't you just put it back where you originally found it?

EDIT: I think Sarah's HDD is located just above where that white box is on yours, and there seems to be some space where it could fit...

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2003-05-23 03:42am

I'd think it would hang near the front of the case ceiling, where one would normally expect the drives to be. Except there's already something there. Does it do anything important?

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-05-23 03:48am

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Oh, okay. When you said Drive Rack, I thought you meant for for the disk drives.

Well, why don't you just put it back where you originally found it?

I would if I knew where it was originally. A friend gave me this case (filled with random junk; I poached the NIC and some screws).

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:EDIT: I think Sarah's HDD is located just above where that white box is on yours, and there seems to be some space where it could fit...

That's what I was thinking, but the one way I managed to fit it caused a problem in that the outer shell won't fit anymore.

Raxmei wrote:I'd think it would hang near the front of the case ceiling, where one would normally expect the drives to be. Except there's already something there. Does it do anything important?

That's where the hard drives go. The space you're talking about are the 5.25 bays. I'm thinking right behind it, above the PSU, but I don't know.

Batman · Post by **Batman** » 2003-05-23 04:00am

The HDD cage looks like it's supposed to be screwed to the front cover of the case.
I don't see a provision for this in the case, so I'm wondering if it's actually supposed to go in this model case.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-05-23 04:03am

Batman wrote:The HDD cage looks like it's supposed to be screwed to the front cover of the case.
I don't see a provision for this in the case, so I'm wondering if it's actually supposed to go in this model case.

Well, there is no place for the HDD in that case...

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-05-23 04:03am

It will go anywhere with sufficient brute force. Now where it correctly goes I have no idea. You might ask the friend, they could either tell where, or that its accidentally from another computer and has no place.

Batman · Post by **Batman** » 2003-05-23 04:09am

Dalton wrote:
Batman wrote:The HDD cage looks like it's supposed to be screwed to the front cover of the case.
I don't see a provision for this in the case, so I'm wondering if it's actually supposed to go in this model case.
Well, there is no place for the HDD in that case...

You know the multipe meanings of 'case' have me confused here.
You're saying there's no room for HDDs if you mount it that way, right?

How IS the cage supposed to be mounted? Screwed to s.th., latch onto s.th.,
welded in place...

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-05-23 04:26am

Case, as in the entire box that the comp goes in.

I found out where this removable disk drive rack goes though!

Batman · Post by **Batman** » 2003-05-23 04:35am

Dalton wrote:Case, as in the entire box that the comp goes in.

I found out where this removable disk drive rack goes though!

Looks like the drives would be mounted vertically if that's how it's
supposed to go? Strange.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-05-23 04:41am

Ah, the strange and bizzare world of custom computer building...

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-05-23 04:41am

Batman wrote:Looks like the drives would be mounted vertically if that's how it's supposed to go? Strange.

Pretty much, yeah, but our resident ex-hacker assures me this is OK.

If it turns out to be a problem I always have an extra bay and a pair of brackets.

Batman · Post by **Batman** » 2003-05-23 05:40am

Oh, I don't expect any problems, a lot of challenged-for-space desktop cases mount them that way. I've just never seen a cage designed that way.

Striderteen · Post by **Striderteen** » 2003-05-23 05:43am

It looks similar to my rig, except for the rather unusual sideways drive cage. That's not too good for your drives, but the way; the disk platters are designed to balance properly in the horizontal. They'll still work sideways, but wear and tear is increased so they'll wear out sooner.

Batman · Post by **Batman** » 2003-05-23 06:43am

Striderteen wrote:It looks similar to my rig, except for the rather unusual sideways drive cage. That's not too good for your drives, but the way; the disk platters are designed to balance properly in the horizontal. They'll still work sideways, but wear and tear is increased so they'll wear out sooner.

Yes, after several centuries as opposed to 'when hell freezes over'. I've been in IT for better than a decade and if there's a relevantly higher failure rate for vertically mounted drives I never noticed it.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-05-24 03:06am

UPDATE:

Although the new(old) case was an ATX-compatible, I couldn't (actually, rather wouldn't) transplant my current rig. The PSU is 175W, and the 300W in my current box would only have support from the screws (the 175W had a couple of clips that would slide into the bottom of the right-hand wall on that bracket on the upper-left in the case pic; this one didn't and I didn't want to have the PSU falling off or bending or something). Also, the metal covering for the mobo ports wouldn't fit into the holder and I didn't want to leave that area wide open (though as it is now I took the side off and have my fan blasting on high in there; it's running cooler than it ever has at 45*C/114*F).

It's not really worth it (I'd rather get a new case designed to cool AMDs) but it would have been interesting to have an Athlon 2000+ in a box marked "P5-166".

BrYaN19kc · Post by **BrYaN19kc** » 2003-05-24 03:10am

Hey, that looks like your typical LINUX box -- nothing inside.

ROFLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-05-24 03:28am

So THIS is what you meant with that PM.

*prod*

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-05-24 03:30am

I'll second that.

*applies a pair of high-voltage lines ot BrYaN's testicles*

Post by **AdmiralKanos** » 2003-05-24 03:31am

BrYaN19kc wrote:Hey, that looks like your typical LINUX box -- nothing inside.

ROFLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!

Are you trying to compliment Linux by exaggerating its incredibly low minimum system requirements compared to bloated resource hogs like Windows?

BrYaN19kc · Post by **BrYaN19kc** » 2003-05-24 03:39am

One little joke at 2 a.m. and this happens!

ROFL!