My last project started for real the autumn 2006, and was completed 2007-06-18

Main objective of this case is to act a a fileserver, and it also needs to be relatively quiet. My old Chieftec Scorpio (Superbitch) is quite full, and needs a replacement that looks cool, and that isn't as noisy. The case will be able to house 12 HDDs, and a lot of slow-spinning 120mm fans to try to keep the noise at a minimum. The name and some/most/all art are from the anime series GunGrave. It's a good series, and it's theme fits in nicely into my color scheme. Now that I'm done with the project, I can happily admit that it succeeded and surpassed my expectations. It's a lot quiter than my old case, and it also weights 10Kg less.

The case is about 52cm deep, 34cm wide, and 38cm high.

Build time: ~250hrs +planning
Cash spent: I didn't keep track ;)
Weight: 20Kg with current system. Max weight fully fitted with 11HDDs will be 22Kg.
Noise Level: I measured 38db 30cm from the case, with an ambience of ~30db.
Cooling: 4xPapst 120mm@5V, 2xPapst120mm@7V, Zalman VF900, SLK947U with Papst92mm@8V

Hardware: I know it's old stuff, but for what it's supposed to do, it works well.
Mainboard: Abit AN7
Sound: Soundstorm DDLive!
CPU: AthlonXP2500+ @2,2Ghz
RAM: Corsair TWINX1024-3200XL
PSU: Antec NeoHE 430W Modular
GFX: Sapphire Radeon1600PRO HDMI
Cards: Promise Ultra100TX2, SATA300TX4
DVD: NEC AD-7173A Labelflash IDE
Extra features: 4xHDD activity LEDs, Shiny surfaces I'll spend more time cleaning than using the computer.

HDDS:
2x500GB Maxtor DMax11 16MB SATA2
1x250GB Maxtor DMax10 16MB SATA
2x200GB Maxtor DMax10 8MB SATA
1x250GB Maxtor DMax9+ 8MB IDE
2x200GB WDigital Caviar SE 8MB IDE
~2,3TB

Current status: TV-Out getting abused by an extreme amount of video data.