RE: Re: Building a RAID enclosure - Problem sourcing a part

["Dave McLaughlin" <dave_mclaughlin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,



If you can photograph the existing PCB in good detail (it looks like single
sided PCB anyway) then I can reverse engineer it for you and then you can
get PCB-Pool to make you some high quality PCB's for 54.75 Euros plus
shipping (37.31 if you don't need the solder mask). As the board would be
less than the min size of 100 x 100mm you would get 3 out of this for the
same price. Parts you can get from Farnell as they do both the ATX power
and
the HDD connectors. I would list any part no.s etc.



Let me know if this is of interest to you?



Cheers,
Dave.



From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
noughtomate
Sent: 14 September 2009 22:04
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Building a RAID enclosure - Problem sourcing a part





Unfortunately, my existing case is already in use.

You may well be right... It could be a custom made board for Silverstone. I
was kinda hoping that with the growing homebrew, modding and WHS market
that
such a device could be purchased.

Thanks for the wiki link. I'll give that a go.

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
, Paul Gale
<groups2@...> wrote:
>
> Yeah - it looks like a custom made part - not seen something like that
before. Like Des says, you should be able to achieve this using some home
made linking/cabling?
>
> Can you not just steal the board from your existing enclosure and move
it
across?
>
> If not, you can use one or more of the standard Molex 4 pin supplies
from
the PSU to power whatever kit you need - then either permanently link the
power on switch sense lines of the ATX connector (green and black wires
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATX_Power_Connector
pins 16/17) - or connect
these to a front panel power switch. You could then tape up or insulate the
rest of the 20/24 pin ATX PSU plug.
>
> LED's etc can be simply driven from the 12V or 5V PSU lines with a
suitable resistor in series (depending on the type of LED).
>
> Paul.



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