No system specs? I am curious now.
Also, thing's got to be loud.

Loud? Not really... Its Liquid cooled... that whole top segment is a radiator.

Specs however:

CPU: 8-Core AMD running at 3.9Ghz (Overclocked)
Ram: 16GB DDR3 (primary bank) and 8GB DDR1 (Special Use)
Sound: Hollow State Dual Triode based tube amplifier boosting normal hardware sound.
Memory: 2TB (Main Drive) dual 1TB backup drives in Raid configuration (I only backup individual files so this is a redundant storage) 17TB LTO-3 Tape Library (for long term storage)
Graphics Nvidia GTX 960

Secondary node has 32GB DDR2 ram and a 12 cores (2x 6-core AMD Opteron). It however has no GPU of its own and exists solely for mass computational cluster use in concert with the Primary node.
UPS backup supply can run this whole thing for 45 min on no incoming electricity.

I run a dual boot Windows/Linux environment.


There is more but it deals with security and communication for the computer so i will keep that part to myself.

Oh no worries about the rest.
Little project I am going to work on, making an old 4 bay NAS into a 4 bay USB 3.0 drive block.
The thing was so old and came from japan from a company back in 2007, so no support or firmware at all.

The header card that comes up from the board is a PCI-e x4 port, so I can just get an extension that uses a ribbon cable and use the wires to port out each of the drives data lines,.
Then I can work on a way to hot wire the existing power supply in the case to power the drives. Then for the lights for each drive, the power light, status light and ethernet lights,
Ill probably rig them all up to an arduino micro and make a program that will blink them in interesting ways for looks.
Ill probably replace the fan in the back with a neat lighted one that’s MUCH quieter.

When I get all the data lines sorted out and soldered to a sata cable, Ill plug them into individual sata to USB 3.0 dongles and they will plug into a USB 3.0 hub, and then that will plug
into a USB 3.0 female to female panel mount port that will be on the back.

Reason for all this. The largest single drive it could support before was 500GB..... yea... not really spectacular.
But after the modding is done. I can do any size drive I want. Think of 4 drives all 6TB in size. That's a 24TB storage block.
I like that idea better. And the dongles also support hot swapping. so even while its on, I can pull the drives easily.

Here is what the whole housing looks like. I think when I get it all done, Ill probably find a nice rugged handle to bolt to the top panel so I can carry it easily.
http://imagescdn.tweaktown.com/cont.....1/0/1031_7.jpg

Nice. I remember those old NAS modals from the early 2000's. Most of them really didn't work past windows XP and had limited HDD size but hey at the time 500GB was huge.

Well for having a 24TB backup as a redundant system, can't say I could argue about it for something as cool as a build like this.

Also, if you know of any 4 port USB 3.0 hubs that look like this, that would make this build so much easier space wise.
http://www.usbgear.com/images/SQUID-HUB-4P.jpg

Wish Granted. I sent you a link.

Stuff for casuals, heh

That's the same server rack I was thinking about getting!
How do you like it?

It works very well! I will say hwever that it really should be deeper because the tape drive pokes out a bit however i personally love it. If your looking at this model however get the bigger one. If you intend to expand its worth it.

Noted, thanks!