Crayfish, actually.

It's been a few. I'm not entirely displeased with that.

I didn't post until I had some results. So, results!

Case made it up from Birmingham today. Well, most of it did.

For this project, there is a complex interplay of systems going on, and they are roughly divided into two setups. This is Jet. Jade is forthcoming.



There's board, sound and RAID mounted. RAID is hooked up to four drives currently through SAS-8484 to SAS 8482x4 cable. Array is currently comprised of 3 Fujitsu 36.4GB 15k drives and one Velociraptor in 300GB trim for storage. VGA is awaiting single slot bracket.



Boxing in the PSU area...



...to hide the cables.

PSU is a Silverstone Zeus 850w. Sleeving is nylon twine, in a whip knot (not coachwhipping, but a whip knot, to fix a fraying line) and coated in a mix of black dye and beeswax. Like the handle of my old jian]. THis was purposely chosen to reflect the austerity of design that marked much of the design-and to counterbalance much of the ornamentation planned. Feng shui, if you will.



Ornamentation like this. It's almost finished. Finishing materials are epoxy lacquer and gold leaf. This will all be buried beneath Polycrylic and rubbed out. No snickering in the back.



Remember I said most of the case made it? My friend knocked off the front right (facing the case) foot and left the doors at his house. Yay. I'm now looking for new feet.

Also, for those that haven't figured it out, case is a Define XL. Modded, of course.



A detail of the whipping at the base of the cables. Coating is heavier here to resist handling.



Mocking up to begin enclosing the bay area...



Here you can see the DMM leads off the board. My Fluke 117 will get a workout with this.



My Koolance dual DDC single bayres, just cause I have it.



And here we stand today. Back to laying out again.

Time to feed my kid. He's staring at my pizza.