I named this project "Little Blue" because when I go to paint this case a color of my wife's choosing, it will blue .
I bought a pallet of computers from a university from eBay, the greatest place to spend lots of cash, and thought all the computers would be too old to do stuff with and would be great dremel practice. I was half right, amid the junk I found the E-3400s and a workstation. The Workstation was not better than the E-3400 due to a better processor in the E-3400 (http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5442). So after talking to Nil8 and Slug Toy (Thanks to Both for giving me the idea), there appears to be a way to make them better, and come to become server-like. So I got to looking around and seen a place for them but I had to remove a bar.
After having that out of the way, I took needle nose pliers and broke off some of the plastic tabs that were in the way of the drive placement. I had no choice because the drives had to go a certain way or it cause problems.
Once I had outlined where to put the hard drive, i decided to make sure I use really old ones, so not to ruin the better ones. Since I was using the holes on the bottom of the hard drive, I was hoping that it would be the same as the newer stuff. I used plastic pipe brace as bracing, It was strong enough to do the job and be drilled and painted if I wanted to. To hold the bracing to the lid of the case I used pentium 2 bracket screws and nuts, they do the job perfect.
With the screws and bolts in place as you see, its really saggy and didn't look computer safe, so I though of another bracement and use a nut and bolt to hold the two straps together. With the four nuts and bolts in place the drives are secure and safe and thus ready to be switch with the ones I will use.
With the drives in place, I grabbed a old hd exp card, two long ribbions and spliced together a power cord. Everything seemed in order, at the moment.
Upon boot up, I found that the two hd exp cards I had installed cause conflict. So I popped one out and put two Hds on the onboard controller and the two on the roof onto the card. All boots up well, great relief.
I tend to use spray paint for plastic, color the exp card and video card, and install a blue fan in the front.