My Desktop – September 2014

Bysherwin

I’ve decided to do some consolidating of machines. I wanted to combine my main desktop and home server into 1. So i dismantled my server and took my RAID card and hard drives and added onto my desktop. I also got alarger SSD for the OS drive. Here’s what I ended up with.

internal pic

Here is the list of parts that make up my current desktop.

Adding 8 hard drives was a bit of a challenge in terms of cable management, but I was able to pull it off. What do you think? You can also check out my video.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFdoeauq4y0]

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