Media Wall

[TheRoyalDoyle]

Good Day Everyone!

 

I just recently got back into computer modding, after a long stint of using Mac's and well... Not modding. I ran across the LTT Youtube channel several months ago, and have to say it has brought me back into the game, so I figured what would be better than to share my new idea and hopefully build with the LTT community.

 

I am the father of three quickly growing kids, and a dynamic shift has started in my household, I have gone from the primary  consumer of tech, to the secondary consumer, behind the three kids. Our demand for media, access, and gaming, is growing at an alarming rate. My mac book windows machine and xbox, is quickly becoming underwhelming. As a solution to the ever growing need for tech in my home, the media wall was conceived. The Plan:

 

Wall mount a PC that will act as a NAS/Media Server for the whole home. I have a man cave/ office that will house the machine, and because of that I wanted to make it a piece of art that could hang on the wall as much as an useful piece of equipment. I would love any feed back that you might have as this is simply in the planning stages of its life.

 

The build will consist of 2 Thermaltake Core P5's that for lack of a better term will be smooshed together to create what appears to be one large wall mounted unit (See crappy renders attached to this post). The tripple rad is overkill, however I think it will make for a great conversation pieces, and is for aesthetics only. I plan on running several HDD's in some sort of Raid setup with a single SSD OS drive. Hope to find a decent but not overly powerful GPU, again just for aesthetics. 

 

I will keep this updated as I make progress. Any input you might have at all would be amazing!

[HeroXLazer]

What 3D program are you using?

[TheRoyalDoyle]

23 minutes ago, HeroXLazer said:

What 3D program are you using?

Sketchup

[HeroXLazer]

1 hour ago, TheRoyalDoyle said:

Sketchup

Did you model everything or where did you find all those files for SketchUp?

[TheRoyalDoyle]

1 minute ago, HeroXLazer said:

Did you model everything or where did you find all those files for SketchUp?

https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/?hl=en

[HeroXLazer]

33 minutes ago, TheRoyalDoyle said:

https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/?hl=en

I was thinking that, but just wanted to make sure.

[snowPT]

I was about to talk about the 3 rad's but then i saw what you did say about them, ok, seems really overkill

 

Following this!

[TheRoyalDoyle]

4 hours ago, snowPT said:

I was about to talk about the 3 rad's but then i saw what you did say about them, ok, seems really overkill

 

Following this!

HAHA yeah the Rads, are just there to fill some space, and look cool.

[TheRoyalDoyle]

Added a unique element to the design. Custom Acrylic Windows molded below. I need to find someone that can cut these for me, will also look at etching some art work in the the center of the acrylic. Now do develop a hidden LED solution for the acrylic.

[H3LLSMAN]

Shit load of mechanical storage there, Now if they were all 10TB drives that would be insane. Will be nice to watch this build come to life. MNPCTECH might be able to fab the windows for you. https://mnpctech.com/

 

[TheRoyalDoyle]

On 1/22/2017 at 10:03 AM, H3LLSMAN said:

Shit load of mechanical storage there, Now if they were all 10TB drives that would be insane. Will be nice to watch this build come to life. MNPCTECH might be able to fab the windows for you. https://mnpctech.com/

 

Thank You, I will be running unRAID OS, so I can scale the storage in a RAID 5 array whenever, I will start with affordable storage and slowly bring it to SUPER DUPE storage... whatever that is. I will check out mnpctech. Thanks!

[2FA]

On 1/22/2017 at 0:03 PM, H3LLSMAN said:

magnetic

FTFY

[TheCamba]

Make this dream a reality!

[kl3vr]

I've got a wallmounted computer with my HDD bolted to the metal backboard using motherboard risers. It's quite audible when it spins up and is reading/writing, like when playing a movie or if I have torrents seeding/downloading. Do you have a plan for mounting the hard drives, or how did you do it, and did you include some kind of vibration dampening?