Without Plan B, how good could an action movie plot be?
Think the beginning of Live Free or Die Hard, not Charlie's Angels:Full Throttle.
Plan B . . . drafting around the corner right on the tail of Plan A . . .
. . . The temptation of building an penthouse mount, clear Plexi cold swap unit with an AT PSU is really beginning to grow on me. That way I can pack the labeled redundant backup drive sets in antistatic bags within bubble wrapped cocoons packed inside a pair of my matched mailing box storage stack containers. The unmodified adapters are just a tad taller than the PSU and there's plenty of room for active cooling of just the drives if I so choose. Putting dados in Quarter inch Plexi for the side nubbins on the drives would be easily accomplished on the makeshift router table. Rabbets for glueing up the inch side plates would be duck soup as bell. [
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That will leave the cubic under the adapted slot loader open for aether the faster ATA bus on the Tempo Trio or a choice of a Ultra SCSI or fast SCSII Adapted SCA 3.5" drive setup underneath the Adapted Laptop Slot Loader running off the second ATA channel on the Trio.
No fuss, no muss, and no RAID complications for the backups, just one more pair of the inexpensive server drives per redundant pair of backup sets.
For a really good action plot, add in Plan C . . .
. . . the metal Drive/PSU chassis from the donor 7100 of the top removable bay'FDD bay RFI shielding has already been modded a bit for a rear facing auxiliary I/O unit for the Pet IIfx, I decided that Plexi worked better for that as well, but for a down and dirty third option it works, especially with the butt ugly industrial junker sheet metal look. [}] ]'>
Same AT PSU, gotta love that on-off switch that actually works vs. the overly complicated ATX spec for this kind of hack. That's the Quad 3.5" SCA drive hot swap server module sitting next to it.
Here are the detail pics . . .
. . . drive trays with the 2.5" Savvio there in the bottom tray . . .
. . . and the back end.
So many toys and projects and so little time . . .
. . . whatever, you just gotta do what you can for retro-tech playtime! [
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Think the beginning of Live Free or Die Hard, not Charlie's Angels:Full Throttle.
Plan B . . . drafting around the corner right on the tail of Plan A . . .
. . . The temptation of building an penthouse mount, clear Plexi cold swap unit with an AT PSU is really beginning to grow on me. That way I can pack the labeled redundant backup drive sets in antistatic bags within bubble wrapped cocoons packed inside a pair of my matched mailing box storage stack containers. The unmodified adapters are just a tad taller than the PSU and there's plenty of room for active cooling of just the drives if I so choose. Putting dados in Quarter inch Plexi for the side nubbins on the drives would be easily accomplished on the makeshift router table. Rabbets for glueing up the inch side plates would be duck soup as bell. [
] ]'>That will leave the cubic under the adapted slot loader open for aether the faster ATA bus on the Tempo Trio or a choice of a Ultra SCSI or fast SCSII Adapted SCA 3.5" drive setup underneath the Adapted Laptop Slot Loader running off the second ATA channel on the Trio.
No fuss, no muss, and no RAID complications for the backups, just one more pair of the inexpensive server drives per redundant pair of backup sets.
For a really good action plot, add in Plan C . . .
. . . the metal Drive/PSU chassis from the donor 7100 of the top removable bay'FDD bay RFI shielding has already been modded a bit for a rear facing auxiliary I/O unit for the Pet IIfx, I decided that Plexi worked better for that as well, but for a down and dirty third option it works, especially with the butt ugly industrial junker sheet metal look. [}
] ]'>Same AT PSU, gotta love that on-off switch that actually works vs. the overly complicated ATX spec for this kind of hack. That's the Quad 3.5" SCA drive hot swap server module sitting next to it.
Here are the detail pics . . .
. . . drive trays with the 2.5" Savvio there in the bottom tray . . .
. . . and the back end.
So many toys and projects and so little time . . .
. . . whatever, you just gotta do what you can for retro-tech playtime! [
] ]'>