Housing for home media server from the old printer do it yourself
After introducing to fast Internet and torrents, there is a need to have a computer turned on 24/7.
It seemed to me much more interesting to collect myself than just to buy, and I decided to do it at my leisure.
I decided to start with a suitable motherboard, my choice fell on Atom and old friend Gigabyte.
GigaByte GA-GC230D
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An old 235 W power supply, a memory gig and a couple of old 120 and 200 GB screws were also found.
Then I thought for a long time about the manufacture of the case, various options were tried, including plywood, but the result was not at all pleasing.
But then at work, an ancient laser printer accidentally caught the eye, killed several years ago, but never thrown away, as it turned out not in vain.
The motherboard got into it with a whistle, the printer was immediately gutted and completely washed away from the cultural layer of perennial deposits and a beautiful yellow coating on the case.
Clean, little white. It pleases the eye :), as outside ...
So from the inside ...
We pretend iron in place.
Places, as you can see, a lot, you can not crowded.
We disassemble the power supply, get rid of the case and unnecessary parts, screw the board to the wall (if anyone decides to repeat, carefully, high voltage is present on the radiators , and in many places on the board too).
We pretend to place a motherboard and a quiet 120mm fan to cool all of this.
It seems everything fit.
Now we collect. Basically, steel strips of the Soviet designer were used as fasteners. The little black button at the bottom was power, I didn’t bring it to the front panel, I didn’t want to make a hole in the case once again. Also, in order not to perforate the case, I used a native light guide on the front panel, screwing in the power and access diodes of the hard disk.
After assembly, we tighten all wiring with ties, and it looks more pleasant and does not suck into cooling. Also, after testing, the native cooling fan from the north bridge was unscrewed, a blower 120 fan is enough for everything, but it was noisy.
To install the operating system, you could use a USB flash drive, but I managed to use a DVD drive that was plugged in at the time of the wiring.
The result is a ready-made server that does not hurt the eyes, with little or no cost to the case and a pleasant time spent.
It seemed to me much more interesting to collect myself than just to buy, and I decided to do it at my leisure.
I decided to start with a suitable motherboard, my choice fell on Atom and old friend Gigabyte.
GigaByte GA-GC230D
')
Detailed description on Yandex Market
An old 235 W power supply, a memory gig and a couple of old 120 and 200 GB screws were also found.
Then I thought for a long time about the manufacture of the case, various options were tried, including plywood, but the result was not at all pleasing.
But then at work, an ancient laser printer accidentally caught the eye, killed several years ago, but never thrown away, as it turned out not in vain.
The motherboard got into it with a whistle, the printer was immediately gutted and completely washed away from the cultural layer of perennial deposits and a beautiful yellow coating on the case.
Clean, little white. It pleases the eye :), as outside ...
So from the inside ...
We pretend iron in place.
Places, as you can see, a lot, you can not crowded.
We disassemble the power supply, get rid of the case and unnecessary parts, screw the board to the wall (if anyone decides to repeat, carefully, high voltage is present on the radiators , and in many places on the board too).
We pretend to place a motherboard and a quiet 120mm fan to cool all of this.
It seems everything fit.
Now we collect. Basically, steel strips of the Soviet designer were used as fasteners. The little black button at the bottom was power, I didn’t bring it to the front panel, I didn’t want to make a hole in the case once again. Also, in order not to perforate the case, I used a native light guide on the front panel, screwing in the power and access diodes of the hard disk.
After assembly, we tighten all wiring with ties, and it looks more pleasant and does not suck into cooling. Also, after testing, the native cooling fan from the north bridge was unscrewed, a blower 120 fan is enough for everything, but it was noisy.
To install the operating system, you could use a USB flash drive, but I managed to use a DVD drive that was plugged in at the time of the wiring.
The result is a ready-made server that does not hurt the eyes, with little or no cost to the case and a pleasant time spent.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/85644/
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