Sarah Conner Chronicles found item question

[th0rn]

Okay. Bear with me. I decided some time ago to attempt to build a replica of the Turk version 2 from the above-mentioned Sarah Conner Chronicles. Well, after searching for good shots of it from the show and only coming up with two, both from the Terminator Wiki, I was still having a heck of a time figuring out what they'd used.

Long story short, I know, too late, I found out that the actual external enclosure used was an American Media DS-2340SES. Also known, strangely enough, as one of the AMS Venus T-series enclosures.

Now, the one on the series itself was the SATA to eSATA enclosure loaded with non-SATA drives.

My intention is to make this a functional replica, so I'll be loading it with SATA drives instead of the ATA-133's used on the show.

Here's my question. This enclosure is discontinued just about everywhere I've looked on the Web. Is there anyone out there with some insight as to where someone could come up with one of these enclosures? I've tried the 'bay with no luck. Any suggestions would be very, very welcome.

Oh, I've got the pics, but this is the first thread I've ever started here so I wasn't sure about pic hosting or whatever to post them.

 

[CSMacLaren]

It appears that it was an OEM by SONDYO COMPUTER CO. LTD.

Model SDB4E

http://www.sondyo.com/sdb4e.htm
http://tw.acesuppliers.com/company/information_2228.html
http://www.span.com/product_info.php?products_id=21624&source=gbaseus&currency=USD (has a different side)

Comes in white or black.

 

[th0rn]

Very interesting. And a great find. Thank you very much. Here's a link to the one I found:

http://www.american-media.com/product/external/ts/ts.html

Looks like the T4S, because the front panel on the screen-used prop has led's labeled as sata0 through 3 for the four drives in it rather than hdd0 through three for the non-sata model. In the pic I found off the Terminator wiki, none of the drive lights are lit up. I was able to enlarge the pic and pull a serial number off one of the drive and found out it was an ata-133 Seagate 200gb drive. That explains the drive led's not being lit up, since the wrong drives were in the enclosure. Heh.

 

[ONEYE]

...Oh, I've got the pics, but this is the first thread I've ever started here so I wasn't sure about pic hosting or whatever to post them.

I'd love to see the pictures, if you e-mail them to me I'll post them for you. I'm not sure I could clearly explain how to post them. 1eye at comcast.net

 

[th0rn]

Just sent them. Thanks.

 

[ONEYE]

Where do the three red lights come into play?

 

[CSMacLaren]

The lights may have low-luminosity LEDs that were added to make the TURK stand out, otherwise it wouldn't grab attention. Hard drives don't have LEDs in of themselves.

They might first go into a small frame before being inserted into an array, and that frame might, in some cases, have a status LED. Back in my day, these were done to allow hot-swapping capability and were associated with RAID arrays. These frames had some on-board electronics that allowed you to unplug and mount a hard drive without powering down the array itself.

However, the TURK enclosure seems to be of a design where you plug hard disks in directly, thus it would have no LEDs.

 

[th0rn]

Now I did not notice that in the back of that pic. Good catch.

I'd have to agree that the red led's must have been added as set dressing. I've looked at two different manufacturer's sites now and it's pretty obvious that there are no individual drive led's within the trays. Besides, the Turk enclosure is missing the faceplate present on both manufacturer sites listed above.

 

[Jack Knight1979]

aghhhh. I'm really missing the show already.

 

[ONEYE]

Now I did not notice that in the back of that pic. Good catch.

I'd have to agree that the red led's must have been added as set dressing. I've looked at two different manufacturer's sites now and it's pretty obvious that there are no individual drive led's within the trays. Besides, the Turk enclosure is missing the faceplate present on both manufacturer sites listed above.

If you ever consider making one with LEDs as show in my picture I'd be interested. I don't need it to work or haven anything in it, just light up as shown. It'd be a really cool item.

I miss the show. Nothing's perfect on TV or the movies, but this and BSG were two shows I looked forward to watching. That is something that is rare for me, interest in any TV show.

 

[th0rn]

Absolutely. The links I found and were provided above are the exact encolsure. The only thing to make sure of is that the front panel shows "sata0" through "sata3" rather than "hdd0" through "hdd3" for it to be screen accurate.

 

[CSMacLaren]

The enclosures might be generic to where the faceplates are merely adhesives that can be customized per an owner's needs. Check with the retailer to see if this is the case. Most non-SCSI drives are SATA nowadays. If they actually manufactured a non-SATA variant with a different backplane altogether, then it would not be a matter of the consumer swapping the front adhesive.

 

[ONEYE]

Found another picture of "Turk."

 

[ONEYE]

Any updates?

 

[ONEYE]

Reloaded some reference pictures and hoping to get this idea rolling....

 

[gyoung2993]

If you ever consider making one with LEDs as show in my picture I'd be interested. I don't need it to work or haven anything in it, just light up as shown. It'd be a really cool item.

I miss the show. Nothing's perfect on TV or the movies, but this and BSG were two shows I looked forward to watching. That is something that is rare for me, interest in any TV show.

I totally agree ,i am not of fan of watching tv either but when bsg and terminator the sarah connor chronicles came on ,i was glued to it and taped them if I wasnt going to make it home in time ,those shows were the best........

 

[ONEYE]

I still miss the show. No reason props can't still be made. If I had the talent, I'd make them.

 

[YenChih Lin]

you guy makin me teary about TSCC :cry