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It all started with vista. XP was happily chugging along on my 36gb raptor, which I've dedicated just for the O/S and any programme installations (not games though).
With vista, 36gb just isn't enough. The O/S is big and with the programmes installed, it was getting tight.

So I thought I'd get a new hard drive. As I refuse to use anything other than Western Digital, I ordered a 150g RaptorX, those sexy drives that have a see-through cover.
Now to display the drive you need cases that have a drive bay sideways, and a window obviously. After loads of looking around, I decided on an Armor Jr from Thermaltake.

And since I was changing the case, I thought I'd get a new power supply. I liked Wolf's Thermaltake Toughpower because of it's cable management system, so I bought a 700w Toughpower to go with the case.

After about ONE MILLION problems installing everything, and I mean turning the PC on once and smelling this horrible burning smell (no clue what burnt, but it was because I'd jumpered a power connection - don't ask), and loads of other problems like forgetting to install the PSU so I had to uninstall everything to fit the damn thing in, and so on and so forth....... it's finally all installed, and I think everything is ticking perfectly. I hope. Windows has installed ok and I need to install tons of drivers, which I can't be arsed with at this moment.

The case is great, it uses cool screw-free rails to install the 5.25 devices, and some screw-free clips to install cards (but to be honest I screwed the gfx and sound cards in, I'm not trusting a piece of plastic!). It also features a useful frame that holds 4 hard drives in, and the screw holes are fitted with little plastic rings to reduce vibration and noise. It also has five 5.25 bays, one of which is at the very bottom!
Problem is, when you install the RaptorX in it's display position, it totally blocks the hard drive cage! The solution is to move the cage into the space of 3 5.25 bays (hence rendering them useless for 5.25 devices). As such, I had to lose a dvd burner (I didn't really use 2 drives to be honest, so I'm not bothered about it that much), but I also had to remove the abit uGuru panel (that displays time, temps, voltages etc). I miss that a lot actually, so tomorrow I'm going to order one of these ;)

Watching the RaptorX work is really scary. The needle jumps around so fast I keep thinking it's going to break. Or scratch the surface. I tried to video it but it was too dark, so I'll try again tomorrow.

I leave you with some crappy out of focus pictures (I'm tired :p)

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