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Originally Posted by Ultraviolet
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I just saw that post on Tom's Hardware and realized that by being able to submerge electrical elements (especially hard drives), my whole project just became way way easier (and more cool too  |
Uh you sure you can do that? I'm pretty sure that will destroy any harddrive. Even if the fluid being used was completely non-conductive and non-capacitive.
Even if you submerge the rest I think FluidXP turns conductive over time. Pulls ions from the metal it contacts and becomes conductive, or something like that :shrug:
I was asking what you are doing with the box because I wanted to know if the processor had to be beefy or not. If it doesn't then why going through all this cooling stuff for nothing?
I think it would be very very fun to submerge a PC just to say I did it and it actually worked. But I'd never do it with a fileserver I planned on actually using as a fileserver...
And I don't know of any P-M mobos(well mobos that can take the CT-479) that can handle 8 SATA drives let alone in RAID5 config. If you want a good RAID5 setup thats not going to be bandwidth limited you want to look for a PCI-X or PCI-Express SATA Raid card. But yeah this is derailing the thread...