Except for the modem, all parts are mounted on a piece of black coated wood which was originally part of some furniture. The disks are mounted a bit loosely using some rubber rings to avoid a sounding board effect. The disks themselves have liquid bearings which only produce a very low noise whispering like the wind and no whistle tone at all. There's room for two more of them.

And now, let's hang it on the wall in my living room (should increase my geekcode ;-).

The blue LED inside the (fanless) CPU cooler has been added for fun. LEDs at the bottom right of the pictures are: a blue power indicator, a red LED to indicate disk activity and a yellow LED to indicate S1 Power On Suspend state (unused because power management has been switched off). The LAN link state and activity LEDs are visible as well (had to bend the mounting barbs a bit). The red and green LEDs in the middle will blink when there is incoming mail from important people. At the bottom left there are three wires which connect another serial port to some reset logic for resetting the ADSL modem (not visible).

Those universal power adapters do not last very long as it appears: three years and two adapters later I decided to "pimp" my server with a Coolermaster Realpower 450 PSU, hoping that it would be silent and last longer. All the redundant wires from the PSU have been cut. To get rid of a (low) mechanical hum the fan screws have been removed and the fan is now kept on its place by some tiny rubber feet between fan and surroundings (everything is rather tight inside the PSU). The vibration itself is probably caused by the coils which should be driven by sinusoidal current instead of a square wave I suspect because it correlates with power, not with rpm. A spring inside the fan bearing needed some grease too and the LEDs were far too bright. By cutting the yellow wire marked "ZP" on the fan and inserting a 1k8 resistor it was fixed. Of course I removed all the sticker crap. Electronics isn't science only, it's also art!

This is how it finally looks in the living room. The server uses approximately 50W, much less than the PSU can deliver.