In my Surveillance / NAS computer, there is a Pentium D (Power sucker), An NVIDIA 8800GT that folds for stanford University (27 idle but 270 when folding), 5 hard drives, and 3 power supplies
It all happened when my 600W decided to scare the living crap out of me, i entered the room and it was filled with white smoke, it has been weeks since i took backup of the many Terrabytes on that computer… the the white smoke is coming out with the power supply fan.
It may be that there are excellent power supplies to power the 5 Hard disks, the GPU and the CPU, but this time i am going split…
Inside the ordinary case, i fixed 2 power supplies with Epoxy (Glue) to the floor of the case, from the main power supply (A new one surely) i connected a cable to the mains power from within and made the AC cable come out with all the other cables, i made it extend into 2 AC in plugs for the 2 power supply sockets, Gave the GPU it’s own power supply (Since the 8800GT takes power from a molex adapter not the PCI-e), the hard disks got a second power supply, and the Pentium D (Older pentium Dual Core) and the motherboard got a third
To make the other 2 power supplies (Not connected to a motherboard) work, you will need to short circuit the GREEN cable with any of the black cables (I chose the one right beside it in the mobo plug).
Then, to make things less crowded, i added a sata multiplier in a case and moved the hard drives there, i also needed to short circuit the green on the new case, and the hard disks are now outside that hot case, i used a SIL 3132 PCI-E on the motherboard, and the sata raid multiplier is something that starts with a 4 if i remember right, something like 4726 (Tiy also need an e-sata cable).
Then, you need some software to setup that port multiplier to JBOD (steelvine), and we are good to go, You also need to remember to turn the extra hard drives on before the computer, and turn them off after you turn off the computer so that Windows can boot with them and share them on the network, otherwise you will need to restart Windows network sharing deamon (probably called service in windows) to have your data on the LAN.