Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Raritan KV 'converted' into something useful?


I had two of these so i decided to strip out one of the cases to use for something.. a couple of years later I've used it. cosmetically Its not quite there. But I post it now anyway


there were asset numbers from Intel uk. Very retro, removed them all planning to paint it.




I used an ATX tray to mount the board before fitting and cut out the rear, the blue button is from the original unit. the button had a pin connector already fitted so it was an obvious choice. this model of KV has a habit of wobbly buttons its not just my laziness. the harddrive is mounted to the lid above the pci slots. the clearances are just right. the board is an ECS k7sem board. it runs Linux and is used as my cheap and dirty file server. usb external hardrives can be stacked ontop to up the storage. it will never be a streaming media server but as a simple network file sharing server it works flawlessly.

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