They were even better when they were copper

Yeah but exposed copper looks so nice

relatable as fuck

@WikiForce Twelve totally random hard drives of three different speeds. Plus a 16GB SSD for the boot drive.

HDD Hot Swap cages would be a slolution.

Or a case that is made for this. Like the SR-107 I had once. But sadly I got rid of it.

@Stefan Payne This case is an enormous pain in the ass to swap drives on. You've got to remove eight screws to get a drive cage out, and once its out of the case, the hard drive can be removed...

@iamdarkyoshi

Doesn't it come from top to bottom with 5,25" Drive Bays like the Cooler Master Storm Trooper or something like that??

Replacing one drive with a non hotswap cage in a Chenbro Case (SR209, 107 and some more) is reallly really painful. You need to remove the front, 4 Screws, disconnect all drives in that cage...

Solution: Just use the Hot Swap bay with a backplane, then its less painful...

But then again: One 4x3,5" in three 5,25" is like 50-90€ or so....

Gotta love the slim ODD loose in the bottom of the case!

@Stefan Payne The case has four 3x HDD cages, each with an integrated 120mm fan, which is why the drive stay so cool. They're just a massive pain to service.

I ran dban a couple times across the whole setup and all the drives still have perfect smart data, so they should be fine for a good while.

@TVwazhere Its actually the 16GB SSD from an HP chromebook lol

That's a lot of hard drives, holy hell

Looks like its just 11 - the same as my Nanoxia Deep Silence 5B...

Yeah, X58 is a real hottie....

And that looks like its a good old LGA1366 OEM Board, because of the three DIMM Sockets.

@Stefan Payne Alienware board with XPS BIOS