Adding a new PSU to case; what saw?

[ErNciLator]

Alright, a few weeks ago I found out I could join PSU's up safely with another mod, but now I need to put the PSU into the case.

Where the 120mm fan went, iv drilled 4 holes for the screws, but now i need to cut out a square for the plug to go in (with the 3 pin thingy).

Any ideas how I would cut a hole like this into an aluminium case? Would a coping saw work and if so which blades?

 

[Nix]

Dremel it.

 

[Yewen]

A coping saw would work, I have no idea on the blade, just a standard one probably. Ask at a hardware store.

Why do you need two PSU's?

A 430w PSU will run a x2 4400, 7800gt, 2gb ram, raptor, 250gb caviar, case fans, 2 dvd drives, audigy 2zs; with a load of grunt to spare.

 

[Messiah Khan]

And if 430W isn't enough, you could go for the;

Tagan TG1100-U95 1100W ATX2.01 Turbojet Quad SLi Silent PSU

And if thats not enough, then your running a Cray supercomputer.

 

[Sandmaster500]

A coping saw would work, I have no idea on the blade, just a standard one probably. Ask at a hardware store.

Will be best to use a proper metal coping saw blade. They wont be expensive. The teeth of the saw (gaps between) need to be smaller than the thinkness of the metal sheet. So like 1mm for you. Like Yewen said just go and ask at a Hardware store (the non-big stores ie not BBQ etc) and you'll come out with what you need.

 

[ErNciLator]

I need 2 PSU's becuase it has 15 hardrives =[. I was going to buy a 1.1kw one, but got a cheap 400w for £5, so thought spend £15 on equipment to fit it - got a drill for £10 leaving £5 for sawing.

Ill go to BnQ today and buy a coping saw I guess . Thanks guys.

 

[BigDom]

I need 2 PSU's becuase it has 15 hardrives =[. I was going to buy a 1.1kw one, but got a cheap 400w for £5, so thought spend £15 on equipment to fit it - got a drill for £10 leaving £5 for sawing.

Ill go to BnQ today and buy a coping saw I guess . Thanks guys.

Why on earth do you have 15 drives O.o

 

[Messiah Khan]

Risking 15 harddrives with cheap 400W PSU's... You brave brave man.

And harddrives only use about 20-25W each, so thats a total of 375W for the 15. Wouldn't you have been better getting a 600-700w supply with decent rails?

 

[squiffy]

More like stupid stupid man.

 

[Klo]

If you have 15 hardrives, I'm sure you afford to buy a slightly more expenisve higher quality PSU, rather than relying on cheap £5 ones.

 

[ErNciLator]

Possibly stupid, but it means in the future when I do wanna get new PSU's I can go for 2 700w ones .

Also to be honest, I just wanted to try a case mod.
Coping saw should be here soon enof; but if one of the PSU goes crazy ouch 1/2 my disks go - at least it's not 100% ! And when I upgrade them finally, it'll be very redundant.

 

[Messiah Khan]

Its fair enough. Persoanlly I wouldnt do it, but as you say its a project. What drives you going to have in it out of interest?

 

[ErNciLator]

Well, at the moment iv got 5 x 200gb and 2 x 250gb, gunna add a few more as soon as some come into clearence on ocuk at a nice price, basically as many as possible - really wanna get hold of a PATA RAID5 card or an SATA RAID 5 card; that's my next aim along with more HD's.

 

[BigDom]

Well, at the moment iv got 5 x 200gb and 2 x 250gb, gunna add a few more as soon as some come into clearence on ocuk at a nice price, basically as many as possible - really wanna get hold of a PATA RAID5 card or an SATA RAID 5 card; that's my next aim along with more HD's.

You sir.. are MAD!!! lol... over 1.5tb of storage and more to come O.o

 

[Messiah Khan]

Well, at the moment iv got 5 x 200gb and 2 x 250gb, gunna add a few more as soon as some come into clearence on ocuk at a nice price, basically as many as possible - really wanna get hold of a PATA RAID5 card or an SATA RAID 5 card; that's my next aim along with more HD's.

Nice. With that much data, and some decent drives there, I would really reconsider getting a good quality PSU though mate. Imagine having 1.5TB of data lost due to trying to save £50-£60.

 

[Yewen]

You have your priorities so wrong.

If the PSU blows, your raid array would be gone, all the data on the drives and a set of dead drives.

Surely, as the PSU's are powering quite a investment in £££ you should get a good one, it IS the most important part of your PC, if a cheap one blows your PC is dead, if a £40 one blows, it just blows, you stick a new one in and continue as if nothing happened.

A good PSU is key to stability and safety of your components, the world is indeed full of people who have lost and will lose data, the same can be said for people with powersupplies.

Get a good one before any more hard drives, pick one up second hand from years ago or get a beefy 500w model so you can run 20 hdd's of it, in safety.

Please just get a new power supply, as I am now anticipating you asking for data recovery software.