Cooling
Tonight was about putting the last finishing touches to the WOPR hardware, by adding two new 300GB drives. I also decided that with five hard disks now in there, I was probably best to add some further cooling too, so I through in another two fans. Of course like all PC hardware building it wasn’t quite that simple, and adding both of them meant moving around the disks I already had in there and ultimately limited me to five instead of six drives within the case.
It’s all still pretty quiet, although obviously not quite as nice as it was before. Amazingly, despite 4 fans and 5 hard disks, it’s still quieter than my 360 is.
WOPR 2 is therefore now complete, with (and I’m remembering this rather than counting again) 1.3 terabytes of space.
