5 - SNOTCO's Crystal Palace & Black Box One

Project/Case Name: Crystal Palace / Black Box One
Builder: Joe "SNOTCO" Gilliam
Affiliation: None

HARDWARE

Black Box One (green):

Processor: Pentium 4
RAM: 1.5GB
Harddrives: 14x Total Internal, 2x External - 1.8TB Total

Crystal Palace (blue):

Motherboard: ASUS
Processor: AMD Dual Core Opteron 175
Harddrives: 14x Total Internal, 2x External - 1.8TB Total

MOD DETAILS

- Acrylic on both cases completely custom and entirely built from scratch.
- SNOTCO is not necessarily a gamer but rather an anime fan and runs these two boxes are file servers.
- In each case between the 14 harddrives, most are IDE but some are SATA.
- Uses 3 IDE bus extenders in each case.
- The Crystal Palace (blue) case has 12 fans in total and 6 cold cathodes plus LEDs.
- Crystal Palace was built in 4 weeks; Black Box One was built in 6 weeks.
- Black Box One was the first one built and ended up being a "test box." After completing this one went straight into building Crystal Palace learning from his mistakes the first time around.

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