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Impressive case, I like it. How noisy are the PS and the exhaust fan on top? Has it fans for the HDD too?

Not too noisy. Was contemplating a fanless PSU, but a temperature controlled fan in the PSU seems good enough + added safety.

The case fans are temperature controlled by the motherboard as well. There is one intake fan in front of the lower hard drives, I may add another (in front of the upper hard drives) when I have a full compliment of drives - if the temperatures indicate a need for one.

Being an apartment dweller, I have limited opportunity for placing the server out of the way where i can't hear it. People with Basements / Garages / closets / spare rooms wired for power + ethernet don't know how lucky they are. So instead I do the best I can, and keep an eye on what other people have done on the SPCR forums.

Nice Grahame!!! You forgot to center the display on the stand though.

Shelly, you forgot the [irony] or [sarcasm] tags. The furniture needs to be upgraded to to cope with the new addition.

Maybe this will give you a clue as to why centering isn't currently feasible. :)

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The server is running 64 bit Windows 7 for historical reasons. It functions as a "proper" server proving services, like say

realtime transcoding of 720p mkv Blu ray rips for viewing on an Ipad, via Air Video. I may also want to install some VM's . Probably overkill for most things I want to do, but solves a bunch of problems for me now, and likely in the future.

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The server is running 64 bit Windows 7 for historical reasons. It functions as a "proper" server proving services, like say

realtime transcoding of 720p mkv Blu ray rips for viewing on an Ipad, via Air Video. I may also want to install some VM's . Probably overkill for most things I want to do, but solves a bunch of problems for me now, and likely in the future.

That really is the best setup imo, I also run a NAS with 64bit Win7, but since it's a pure-server, I went the Atom route. Big energy savings. The i5 is also pretty energy efficient.

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That really is the best setup imo, I also run a NAS with 64bit Win7, but since it's a pure-server, I went the Atom route. Big energy savings. The i5 is also pretty energy efficient.

WOL FTW :) I was using an atom powered Dell mini 9 with external usb drives as something similar, until the SSD started to fail, corrupting the registry in the process. Hence the upgrade. Or thats what I tell myself :)

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Looks interesting. I'd still need something more silent I'm afraid. I'm resisting to get an iMac since last spring... I should wait for the next generation grin.gif

Its not too difficult nowadays to get a completely silent computer if you stick with SSDs and a low power cpu. My i5 setup (pretty similar to grahame's) is overall pretty damn quiet but not silent.

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Went to Art Basel Miami (yesterday, actually) lots of fun stuff.

Then we went to an underground Art Basel party in a warehouse not quite in the design district, inexplicably co-sponsored by the German Consulate, at the invite of a photographer I'd never met. It was pretty non-linear but a good time. Free drinks. We ate at a food truck (there was just one. it had apparently strayed from its herd) The affair was a largely visual experience.There were bands, but the acoustics of the warehouse were so bad you could only guess by looking what kind of music they were playing: portly middle-aged lady probably a jazz singer. Four young people wearing ties maybe punk, maybe ska. Bonnie bought Haitian-style prints from white-haired Austrian guy in a black suit. There was a guy with a long leather coat (that I coveted) who looked exactly like a villain from a British caper movie. And the highlight had to have been the TV reporter from some obscure (to me at least) internet-only outfit who was wearing the mini-est mini skirt I've ever seen, maybe the mini-est ever. Her hem in the back was, by quite careful estimation, approximately at the midline of her butt. The whole party was like being pulled into a Tom waits song.

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