New Toy

[mrmagoo_83]

Picked this up today for cheap. Its a Chenbro RM51901, its a few years old, and the back planes are all PATA. I am working with Chenbro to see if I can purchase SATA back planes; if not, I'll just pull out the PATA ones, and run cables straight to the adapter card...I hope. Now to get a motherboard a processor to throw in here to work as my ripper/encoder/server rig.

 

[Notleh]

Honestly, I can only barely grasp what that is (Russian hard drive storage monster?)...but it looks impressive!

 

[mrmagoo_83]

Apparently, AMX, an automation and storage company, took these cases and built mass media storage servers for public usage, but then ran into a problem with the MPAA, and instead of fighting the lawsuit, just discontinued the product.

It has all four power supplies, 3+1, all the fan modules, but is missing the slim DVD. But we're are going to try to find a bluray player and stick in it. My hopes are to use WHS, and MyMovies, as someone else suggested to make this thing into a ripper/server for the house. I'm looking at getting the X6 1095 with a cheapo motherboard.

For less than $100, I couldn't pass it up, even if I have to take a dremel to it, or buy pieces here and there to get it up and running, it'll be worth that much.

 

[drescherjm]

You had me very interested until you mentioned PATA. I see the cabling but that does not look like all drives were connected (not enough cable mess).

BTW, the drive cages look higher than todays standard so a backplane may not work. I am thinking you could fabricate one with a lot of work and hot melt glue. Not sure what I would use for the material to hold the cables though.