fireforsin Posted June 4, 2008 Posted June 4, 2008 i wanted to get one of those rack mount cases that have a bunch of bays for sata drives to be set up as a multilane case. the only problem is that these cases are like $500 without hard drives. i came up with an idea of just buy an empty rackmount server case and filling it will hard drives. here is the case i chose. server case. i figured if i purchased this, multilane adapter, and put it in both the server case and my computer case it would be a means of connecting the two. then i would just buy this, power bypass adapter. and a cheap 300 watt or so power supply and i would be good to go. my questions is: is this right what i have thought of? will there be any problems i haven't foreseen? is there a better way of doing this? do i need a motherboard in there or not? so pretty much i see it as just a huge external drive enclosure. i would turn it on and off with a switched power strip i have on my rack. will this hurt the hard drives if i turn them off like this, even if i turn the computer off first? thank you for all the future help. mike Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fireforsin Posted June 5, 2008 Posted June 5, 2008 any help would be great. thank you. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardnrg Posted June 5, 2008 Posted June 5, 2008 don't bump threads... if you turned the power on before, off after, it would work... I'd probably splice a green and black instead of manual switch Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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