Black Mongoose Being Born

[Scott]

Black Mongoose my new computer is starting to be built. Here are some early pictures of it.

Yup that is a PC Power and Cooling 1K Quad SLI in there ready for 2 8800GTX's.

The drives are 4 320GB Seagate 7200.10 getting ready for some RAID action.

[XJnine]

That's the next contest prize, right? ;-)

Nice rig.

[Mirrim]

Dr. Frankenscott, you've created a monsta!

Nice computer ;)

[Llanerion]

Wow, you certainly don't do things by halves. Have fun building it and post more once you're done?

[markkleb]

Hey, switch this over to the modded section. Im sure we all would like to see it come together....

Talk about "Top End"..8-)

[Kougar]

That's one nice looking case! I bet you'll notice the difference in your power bills with that kind of hardware... ;)

[Bio-Hazard]

Hey, switch this over to the modded section. Im sure we all would like to see it come together....

Talk about "Top End"..8-)
LOL.....It's just a simple pre-mod case for Scott, you know he doesn't have the time to mod a case himself............;)

[werty316]

Geeze talk about some nice bling action. Those 8800GTX SLi will have one sweet home.

[GIBSON]

Nice case scott! Another Lian-li? Looks perfect to fit a rad in the top ;)
Man, that thing is gonna own :-D

[tomato]

Wow, now this will be an impressive system once completed! :O 8)

[Godspeed]

Scott how makes the brand of case its really nice by the way?:grin:

[ManicMike]

Nice case. Is that a stock top pannel from Lian Li? I have the V1100 myself. Those guys make great cases!

http://www.lian-li.com/Product/Chassis/Middle_Tower/V_Silent/M_V_S_PC-V1100plus.htm

[Scott]

www.CrazyPC.com (http://www.CrazyPC.com) did the case for me.

[Chakka]

Hi Scott how come your doing a raid 0+1 versus a raid 5 with 3 drives you will get the same amount of disc space and safety with 1 less drive?

I really do like the 1 kiloton psu you have....and its single rail to boot! I was on the PC power and cooling website and this psu seems to be the "mother" of all psus...

http://www.pcpower.com/products/viewproduct.php?show=T1KWSR&view=techspecs

[werty316]

You get the goodness of two worlds with raid0+1: HD redundancy like RAID1 across 4 HDs and performance like RAID0 ;)

[Scott]

Yup RAID 0+1 is alot faster in writing. The RAID 5 was ok but god it was slow in writing.

[ManicMike]

I used to run a large RAID 5 SCSI array at my old job where network admin was one of my many hats. It had 10 10K RPM drives in RAID 5 using a Mylex controller for a Macola ERP/CRM database. I was amazed at how fast that thing would defrag a 200G volume while returning queries.
The mother of all RAID arrays is the 50 (or 5+0. parity+mirror). that is very expensive though as you only end up with about 40% of your drive space available for data.

Ahhhhh....those were the days...

[mousiness]

wow that colour of that cas is nice!!!!!!!!!!! intel all the way!